Voter Supression - USA

[Dartz]

I think we should send in election monitors.....


There's a form to sign to get added - it's one line per person in a household. It asks your citizenship, but doesn't particularly car about you proving it.

It's really easy to register. And really hard to game. Unless you lie on the form. But that's a crime.

You can go to the polling station and prove who you are by bringing:
(i) a passport; (ii) a driving licence; (iii) an employee identity card containing a photograph; (iv) a student identity card issued by an educational institution and containing a photograph; (v) a travel document containing name and photograph; (vi) a Bank or Saving or Credit Union book containing address in the constituency or local electoral area (where appropriate); (vii) a Public Services Card;

OR Any of the following accompanied by a further document which establishes the address of the holder in the constituency or local electoral area (where appropriate): (viii) a cheque book; (ix) a cheque card; (x) a credit card; (xi) a birth certificate; (xii) a marriage certificate.


The usual bug is someone moving out of a locality - registering somewhere else and forgetting to unregister. So their polling card ends up going to whomever lived where they did.

Remarkably, even with such glaring obvious holes that should lead to massive swathes of electoral fraud, the system has proved to be relatively reliable since people are mostly decent. And shuttling enough people around the fuck with things would get noticed really fucking quickly.