(Replying to PARENT post)

How hard is it really for a voter to reregister? You guys are making it sound like it they're taking away driver's licenses or something. All you have to do is hit the website. If you don't have internet access hit a library.
๐Ÿ‘คnot_a_cop75๐Ÿ•‘6y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

(Replying to PARENT post)

Because this is HN and you're probably young-ish: When you're older and you've set down roots the last time you updated your voter registration was probably a few decades ago. Chances are your polling place hasn't likely changed either. So you know when elections come, you go to your usual polling place, give your name, get your ballet and "pull the lever" so to speak. You're not thinking "Oh I better double-check my voter registration!" because you haven't needed to do that in ages because your address and party affiliation hasn't changed in years.

The US is strange: It will wring its hands over low voter turnout while also actively making it more difficult to vote.

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(Replying to PARENT post)

You don't find out you need to re-register until it's too late.
๐Ÿ‘คTazeTSchnitzel๐Ÿ•‘6y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0

(Replying to PARENT post)

Why do people have to register to vote at all?

The state has a sort of pretty solid idea of where they live...

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(Replying to PARENT post)

Harder than it is to not wrongfully remove them in the first place, which is really all that needs to be said.
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(Replying to PARENT post)

I'd agree with you if a voter could just instantly register at the time of voting. Ideally there wouldn't be any need for registration at all.
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(Replying to PARENT post)

From the article, it sounded like many of the people who were to be deregistered had no idea that it was about to happen, and they likely wouldn't find out until they showed up to vote on election day.
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(Replying to PARENT post)

Well they are certainly trying to make it hard: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/court-upholds-ohi...
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(Replying to PARENT post)

Problem is you have no reason to believe you've been dropped and show up to vote but are given a provisional (throwaway ) ballot.
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(Replying to PARENT post)

I think instead of framing this issue as "how easy would it be to re-register" we could instead ask "why should anyone have to register to vote at all?" In the US, voting is a right, which is something that cannot and should not be taken away. Invalidating voting registration, especially in a targeted way, is deplorable.
๐Ÿ‘คwbronitsky๐Ÿ•‘6y๐Ÿ”ผ0๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ0