In Az you can register to vote online at the DMV website so you don't even have to go anywhere. I'm sure the AZ repubs will take that away any day now.
I grew up in Phoenix back when the whole state was red as hell and even I was allowed to vote for Obama in the 2008 primary because I'd turn 18 before the general election (by three days but I made it!). Allowing 17 year olds to pre-register and vote in primaries if they will be 18 by the general is common sense (or at least, it used to be).
I went to the voter reg office to make good and damned sure that I am registered to vote and that I will get to vote by ballot-drop because age and feet.
I have a feeling that Governor Ron Pudding Fingers Slitting Throats DeSantis will make me do it again before the next actual election rolls around.
BTW, the actual voter registration employee was very polite and happy to sign me up. I hope she stays safe.
OT: The geniuses running the university have decided to phase out personal office printers and make everyone print to the main office printer--each page will cost the department 0.5 cents, paid to the printer vendor, which seems excessive.
So make a new bottleneck, make sure it is a fragile one so everybody gets shut out at times. I never know just what they think educational field people are up too.
Are group texts or emails or word of mouth or white boards or chalk boards allowed or does all communication have to be done in mime form?
Sounds like an outstanding opportunity for random surveys of what's getting printed. I inadvertently walked off with a business plan and a short story draft from an innocuous looking group printer by the pillar "N" near the west conference room. After some thought, I edited the story, put it back in the unclaimed folder, and tossed the business plan into Recycling. I support humanities.
Great, you'll have people roaming the hallways, clutching stacks of paper... "Did you print out this paper from "The Journal Silence"? How about this piece from "Perspectives"?
Frankly, I would make listing the default setting and put everyone on the voter rolls when they are born here or are naturalized. Citizen? OK - listed.
When they reach the age to vote they would have to affirm that they are still legally able to do so and could then pick a party.
Federal legislation to force integration of state rolls, standardization of procedures, reporting to federal databases, etc. Based on voting rights law. Constitution says states organise it, not that they have free rein. That principle is already established, isn't it? Yes you'd need Congress, and a new SC in 20 years or so, but one way or another you're going to need that anyway. The alternative is too disturbing to contemplate.
It would be a general presumptive right. You would have to show that you can vote as you are (no bars due to other isues) and where you are when you are 18.
Compelling citizens to cast their ballots rarely ends well. Regardless of the particular registration process it has to be entirely voluntary.
There just has to be a respectful but efficient means of encouraging voter registration. I realize that I thought it was just a HUGE damned deal on my 18th birthday when I proudly marched into the local fire department office to register to vote, but I'm sort of weird that way.
The summer right after I registered to vote I was called up on jury duty. It was my summer job. Got a variety of civil and criminal cases. One was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard up to that point: this couple from California moved up to Oregon, were bemoaning that they didn't have a TV to entertain their kids in a bar, a guy at the bar told him go to this house and take the TV, my friend wants to get rid of it, and it turned out that the friend walked in on them removing the TV and called the cops.
Wow. I bet a really weird tv movie could be made from that. Wait, probably some sort of avant guard foreign film, tv movies are never that interesting.
I'm going to bravely buck my own nature and actually be happy about these special election results.
In Az you can register to vote online at the DMV website so you don't even have to go anywhere. I'm sure the AZ repubs will take that away any day now.
I live in Florida. My 17-year old daughter is already registered and gung-ho to vote against Trump or DeSantis or Ramaswamy or whomever next year.
If pre-registration is good enough to even pass our governor's muster, it is good enough to be implemented everywhere.
I grew up in Phoenix back when the whole state was red as hell and even I was allowed to vote for Obama in the 2008 primary because I'd turn 18 before the general election (by three days but I made it!). Allowing 17 year olds to pre-register and vote in primaries if they will be 18 by the general is common sense (or at least, it used to be).
I went to the voter reg office to make good and damned sure that I am registered to vote and that I will get to vote by ballot-drop because age and feet.
I have a feeling that Governor Ron Pudding Fingers Slitting Throats DeSantis will make me do it again before the next actual election rolls around.
BTW, the actual voter registration employee was very polite and happy to sign me up. I hope she stays safe.
And while we're enjoying our visit to Pa., it's a pleasure to note John's feeling much better:
https://x.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1704123105180893497?s=20
The new conspiracy theory is that they’re using a body double. Because you know how easy it is to find a 6’ 8” bald white man.
Their stupidity is gobsmacking. Every time.
Just applied for my absentee ballot!
Still, and all, NY needs to get with universal mail in ballots. This state is mind numbingly backwards and corrupt.
The greatest voter fraud the devil ever pulled off was allowing legal voters to vote.
"But but but, you can't automatically register people to vote---that's not fair!!"
Any Rethug in congress---
How come the right never bitches about jury duty fraud?
OT: The geniuses running the university have decided to phase out personal office printers and make everyone print to the main office printer--each page will cost the department 0.5 cents, paid to the printer vendor, which seems excessive.
So make a new bottleneck, make sure it is a fragile one so everybody gets shut out at times. I never know just what they think educational field people are up too.
Are group texts or emails or word of mouth or white boards or chalk boards allowed or does all communication have to be done in mime form?
Sounds like an outstanding opportunity for random surveys of what's getting printed. I inadvertently walked off with a business plan and a short story draft from an innocuous looking group printer by the pillar "N" near the west conference room. After some thought, I edited the story, put it back in the unclaimed folder, and tossed the business plan into Recycling. I support humanities.
Paywall, paywall, everywhere a paywall.
If they could put debit-card-operated seals on mandatory unremovable gas masks to make people pay to breathe, they would
WTF?!
I suspect kickbacks from the printer vendor.
Has to be.
Yet another nail in the already closed coffin of academia. Quelle surprise.
You're such a cynic!
And so likely accurate!
Great, you'll have people roaming the hallways, clutching stacks of paper... "Did you print out this paper from "The Journal Silence"? How about this piece from "Perspectives"?
Shocking. 🤣🤣🤣
Frankly, I would make listing the default setting and put everyone on the voter rolls when they are born here or are naturalized. Citizen? OK - listed.
When they reach the age to vote they would have to affirm that they are still legally able to do so and could then pick a party.
Since states run elections, and people can move a lot between when they are born and the age 18, things might get complicated.
Federal legislation to force integration of state rolls, standardization of procedures, reporting to federal databases, etc. Based on voting rights law. Constitution says states organise it, not that they have free rein. That principle is already established, isn't it? Yes you'd need Congress, and a new SC in 20 years or so, but one way or another you're going to need that anyway. The alternative is too disturbing to contemplate.
It would be a general presumptive right. You would have to show that you can vote as you are (no bars due to other isues) and where you are when you are 18.
Thanks, PAB, for choosing Mastriano to run as the repub candidate. PA voters had an easy choice and they put this good man in office.
I think the cat in the photo is wearing a sticker that says "I Vomited."
As if cats needed a sticker to announce it.
I really don't understand why this isn't framed in more rah rah patriotic way the way Republicans have done *voter restrictions* for ages.
Patriotism is getting the right people to vote. Voter fraud is getting the wrong people to vote.
Personal Health + The Right to Vote - "Ignore it and it'll go away."
ALL Blue states ought to do this, dammit.
Seriously, if they could mandate that I register for the draft when I was 18 and we didn't have a draft, they can mandate registering to vote.
Mandating voter registration?
I vote no. That's pathetic, and halfway to Soviet-style forced voting.
This is a joke, right? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
We have mandatory registration for social security, jury duty, school, records of birth and death. Does that feel like overreach?
YES. Mah FREEDUMBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They'll force me to register my death certificate over my dead....
Oh, wait.
Compelling citizens to cast their ballots rarely ends well. Regardless of the particular registration process it has to be entirely voluntary.
There just has to be a respectful but efficient means of encouraging voter registration. I realize that I thought it was just a HUGE damned deal on my 18th birthday when I proudly marched into the local fire department office to register to vote, but I'm sort of weird that way.
Or Australian style forced voting. You get fined if you don't vote. Tyrannical fucking Koalas...
You don't have to vote, you just have to return the ballot. You can return it blank, and many do.
I find that to be a damned responsible way of getting things done.
Citizens shouldn't be able to exploit the system without bothering to participate.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Australian Republics does this.
And if you don't like it, you're tried for hooliganism and anti-Australian wrecking in a kangaroo court.
You'll be forced to play an entire game of Australian-rules Football without a helmet and with no one explaining the rules.
You'll get The Boot for sure.
Austrailian-style* forced voting you mean?
GMTA!
You're not forced to vote, just register. Sort of like I HAD to register for the draft but we haven't had a draft since the early '70s.
I'm auto registered for jury duty. This doesn't seem a heavy lift.
The summer right after I registered to vote I was called up on jury duty. It was my summer job. Got a variety of civil and criminal cases. One was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard up to that point: this couple from California moved up to Oregon, were bemoaning that they didn't have a TV to entertain their kids in a bar, a guy at the bar told him go to this house and take the TV, my friend wants to get rid of it, and it turned out that the friend walked in on them removing the TV and called the cops.
I've never been selected to sit on a jury.
Poor attitude.
All I do is spew 'COMMIE' rhetoric. Works EVERY TIME.
I've served on two juries. Third time I was called I wore a tie to the jury selection pool. Kicked right out.
I tell them I'll assume the cops and prosecutors are lying from personal experience.
You are dismissed.
Wow. I bet a really weird tv movie could be made from that. Wait, probably some sort of avant guard foreign film, tv movies are never that interesting.