This is what voter Fraud, and Intimidation look like

[pecunium]

A man arrested for voter fraud in Ontario Calif.

A crowd intimidating voters in N. Carolina.

Take a guess about which side was doing those. Good luck finding comparable examples from the other side of the aisle.

(p.s. the Michigan GOP admits to illegally trying to suppress voters)

Comments

[aostara.livejournal.com]

Here in the States, you CANNOT vote without registering first - you have to give your address on your registration form and (in most places, at least) need to show photo ID as well. The county you register in checks your information BEFORE ELECTION DAY to make sure you are legally allowed to vote in the election - there are a variety of legitimate reasons that you may not be allowed - there are also a ton of BOGUS reasons that the GOP tries to use to disenfranchise votors (see link 3 in the original post, for example).

You do not have to select a party (although if you do, it determines what your PRIMARY ballot looks like, at least in California, where I live - every party gets the SAME ballot for the General Election). I.e., I register Green, so did not get to vote Obama vs. Clinton in the Democratic Primary, or McCain vs. Romney in the Republican Primary.

Some places (rare, I believe) have same-day registration (register and vote on the same day); most places have a deadline WELL IN ADVANCE of election day - in Calif it was October 20. So - if you decide AFTER that deadline that you want to vote - too bad... you can't.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see - thankyou. In all the fuss over registering for a party, I'd missed that this was also basic registration.

Here in the UK we broadly work it by having some list of registered voters at each address, and by assuming this stays constant year on year. There's a _confirmation_ letter goes out beforehand (by local government, not party) but if things haven't changed, then it's broadly assumed that those last registered there will still be entitled.