Link: https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/
Warning: you will get texted so use your disposal number.
With all the news about citizens discovering their voter status has been lapsed, and new rules for being a voter, everyone should check.
But also, sometimes you forget. I have new neighbors who finished moving a month ago, and when I asked if they changed their mailing address and checked their voting status, we discovered they weren’t.
Serious question: Is this legit? Elon and his Nazi buddies are running fake voter registration sites
If you don’t want to give a random site your information (good practice), scroll down and select your state from the drop down menu and it’ll direct you to your state government’s official website to check your registration. I actually had to enter less info than vote.org was asking for to check mine, lol.
OP ( @ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ):
Recommend changing your URL to the .gov:
usa.gov/confirm-voter-registration
This will take everyone to nass dot org/can-I-vote in Step 1, but I like sending people through a dot gov first so there’s no bamboozle concern. Feels right.
Thanks for spreading the word 😎 Checked mine when someone posted a recommendation Texans check their status the other day.
Edit: for “register or update [or check status]”, the fed provides:
The USA link focuses on checking status.
Vote.org is an classic site for voter registration. It has existed many years
That doesn’t answer the question.
Domains can expire, be sold, have their hosting (nameservers) changed…etc it’s very conceivable given the current climate that it could be a malicious site used for data exfiltration from prospective voters. The security posture, if any, of the owner are also unknown, meaning it may be unknowingly compromised.
Especially when you have people willing to drop tens of millions of dollars on voter suppression.
Plain and simple, don’t enter your personal information into a 3rd party site. Use your official government provided ones for this purpose.
Can you lose your voting rights in the USA?
Whaaaaat?
Yep and the person with the most votes isn’t the winner either! It’s super fun and cool living in a non-democracy.
Yes. If you are a convicted felony, you lose your right to vote until you get out and request to get the right back from the state. Each state has their own rules. Some are automatic and some are a pain in the ass.
Some states also have been known to purge voters from their database sometime before an election. They claim it’s either an error or just getting rid of old records of deceased voters. No one believes them though.
Which is how Kemp managed to get “elected” in GA years back
Sorry non-Americans that the American political landscape is a shit show. I hope you’re enjoying the popcorn.
Do other countries eat popcorn?
Yes people of many/most countries do.
There are different ways, some places they put salt on, others put sugar on, cheese is also popular, and I think Americans use butter.
Personally I’d love if we could have something more spicy.Wait, non-americans can’t vote?!!
And some Americans, depends on what state you live in and the shade of your skin.
While Amercia exports shit show, they offset it with another export: caramel popcorn
It is wild to me that in the US you’re not automatically registered to vote. The idea that you have to go through a manual process to exert one of your most basic constitutional rights is unfathomable to me.
Here when you turn 18 you can just vote. It’s that simple. No registration, no ticking a checkbox somewhere, you can simply go out there and vote the moment you’re 18.
I have a brother in Oregon, they auto register there.
We’re the oldest democracy in the world and as such are likely the most poorly designed.
It’s been a proto-democracy for so long, that it has become a pseudo-democracy.
In the US, why do you need to register in order to vote? Doesn’t the government already know who can and cannot vote?
There is no real “centralized authority” for elections in the US
the american authorities don’t want everyone to vote so they require registrations for each election cycle and make doing so, as well as retaining that status until election day, as legally difficult as possible for the ones that they don’t want voting. they also take extra steps to make the act of voting itself as legally difficult as possible for those that they don’t want to voting as well.
the people who they don’t want voting are majority of registered voters so to further minimize their voting power; our authorities gerrymander political districts so that the people who they DO want voting have an artificially oversized voting impact compared to those who they DON’T want voting. nearly all of the conservative states use this approach with texas being one of the worse examples per the 2020 census.
Haha, get fucked. I already get flooded with emails and text messages because I made some donations in 2020. I’ll never participate by giving up contact info again. Good job poisoning the well, Dems (I donated to Bernie and other progressives, now I’m hounded by first Biden and then Harris campaigns).
Do they not let you unsubscribe?
I’ve treated them like spammers. I figure it’s best not to acknowledge that the account is actively read. But lately I’ve been toying with the idea of trying to unsubscribe from all of them en masse.
Why are you complaining about something you’ve never tried to stop? Either do something about it or STFU
I conflate a thing that sucks when you try to stop it with a thing that’s happening now. You can stfu too.
