Scot Dutchy wrote:Brian Peacock wrote:Scot Dutchy wrote:How can you plan anything? Health care, education and infrastructure if you have no idea where everybody is. Britain has the same problem that is why the health and educations systems are in such a mess. The work reactively and not proactively.
You are but you dont know it.
I would rather live in a society that I am a number than one that is so disorganised that it has not got a clue of where most people are living and an electricity bill is sufficient proof of residence.
Well, an electricity bill is part of what can be used to demonstrate residence, if a person does not have state issued identification, like a drivers license, which almost everyone has (if theydon't have a driver license per se, they have state ID that looks the same as a drive license and works for ID purposes). The complaint from some circles is that black people are less capable of obtaining state issued identification, or less willing to do so, and they are more likely to be deceptive about their residences by putting things in other people's names and using the wrong address when they get identification. I don't believe that about black people, but some people do. To address that concern, and other concerns, there have been alternative methods of demonstrating residence.
The importance of demonstrating residence is so that people don't vote in more than one state, which does happen. Some wealthy assholes do it, when they have houses in both new york and florida and they vote in both states. That's getting more risky than it was. In any case, the idea is that you should vote in your precinct of residence and state of residence. We have a federated system of elections, so you live in a state and your vote counts in that state, not nationally. Also, like all countries, there are eligibility requirements. I would not expect to be in the Netherlands on vacation or for an extended sabbatical and be permitted to vote in Dutch elections. There are requirements. Seems reasonable.
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