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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.
From the about page it looks like it's a non profit that does not enforse or support candidates or parties, they claim to only try and work on erasing the barriers between voters and the act of voting
Yep!
In the political side for nonprofits, there are clear rules of what you can do or not do. So a nonprofit with the goal of getting people to vote should not lean left or right.
In the one I volunteered at a decade ago for gay rights, each volunteer had to sign that they are simply pushing the issue forward, not promoting a particular politician or party. It was pretty freaking clear what party we were aligned with, but we couldn't actively tell people to go vote for X or Y, only that here's what party X has shared about the issue, while party Y hasn't given us any comment about it.
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.
search for your state’s Secretary of State website or go to your state’s official website if you are concerned. An official government website will generally have a .gov address or a .state.StateLetterAbriviation.us or some permutation.
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.
I've witnessed people in America using salt, sugar, and butter. Sometimes all three. Personally I just do a dusting of nutritional yeast, it gives it a cheesy flavor.
I also like nutritional yeast on popcorn. Sometimes i will do curry powder instead.
Popping corn, coconut oil, salt, cumin, garlic powder, and chipotle powder.
While Amercia exports shit show, they offset it with another export: caramel popcorn
I've never been prouder to export our caramel freedom. 🫡
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.
In the USA many states work very hard to remove voters' registration and voting locations so the folks they don't want voting can't place their votes.
You just have to stop thinking the US is an actual democracy and everything will make sense (or rather you will understand why nothing makes sense)
Can you lose your voting rights in the USA?
Whaaaaat?
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
Yep and the person with the most votes isn’t the winner either! It’s super fun and cool living in a non-democracy.
"Warning: you will get texted so use your disposal number."
Umm... What?
The phone number isn't a required field and you can just use user@example.com for the email. The site tells you whether you're registered right away, without the need to check any emails they send.
My thoughts exactly.
Just as a PSA, if anyone is concerned about malfeasance in the voter registration process, go to your state of residence’s Secretary of State website or the main State Website. I will not post any links becuase if you can’t navigate the web to find an official website I really don’t think you should be voting—sorry kids, mids and olds.
Your state’s Secretary of State website will have instructions on how to both register to vote and to actually vote. Your state’s official website will also have the same information if your state doesn’t have that office and registration is controlled by some other entity.
We (united states citizens) live in a federation and the reality of that is most elections are handled by local powers so there are some ocassional differences in how voting is administrated, key point—go to your locality’s OFFICIAL websites to find how to register to vote.
It really does matter. There are elections beyond the presidency. Hate your senator? vote, hate your Representative? VOTE. HATE YOUR STATE REPS? FUCKING VOTE? Live in a state where ballot initiatives are a thing??? FUCKING VOTE!!!!
it doesnt cost money. just register and educate yourself on what’s on the ballot and go to the goddamn polls. there are a lot of issues causing problems right now in the US but at least one thing we can do is go to the ballots on election days and vote based on our convictions.
This. No way in hell I'm entering all that personal info on a non-official website. That's how you get on voter spam lists...
I commend vote.org for doing everything they can to get people registered, especially in areas where one side does everything possible to make the voting process as difficult as functionally possible...
...but be warned you will be drowning in emails from vote.org.
The USian system is so bizarre.
Here in Brazil everybody HAS to register when turning 18. The registration can get suspended if you miss an election without justification, but you get a fine for each time.
Voting is not a right, it's a duty.
Absolutely!
It's in the core fabric of the American system. Yet some conspiracy theory has made voting and the right to vote a difficult process.
In some countries, you get a fine for failure to vote, and voting day is a mandatory paid day off of work. I wish the US would do that.
Here voting is always on a Sunday, and for those that work Sundays, the employer has to arrange so that they have time to go vote.
In the US, why do you need to register in order to vote? Doesn’t the government already know who can and cannot vote?
Doesn’t the government already know who can and cannot vote?
I'm sure they do, but I think your confusion is coming from the assumption that those who are in charge of such things actually want people to vote.
They also know precisely how much we owe in taxes, but instead of telling us and we pay it, they allowed a multi billion dollar industry to pop up around it and dictate tax law.
There is no real "centralized authority" for elections in the US
This system is so fucking dumb. Get with the times, America
You assume that those in power want the problem to be fixed. The republicans actively fight making voting a holiday (going as far as saying that dems pushing for it are trying to manipulate elections) and have criminalized giving people stuck in lines for hours (again, as intended) food or water. And since our system was designed by and for wealthly land/slave holders, its not designed to work for the will of the people.
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).
Imagine not just getting a letter explaining where to go vote on which day or if you prefer how to vote by post.
Warning: you will get texted so use your disposal number.
That field was optional. Just don't put your phone number in at all.
Also it would have been weird if it came back and said I wasn't registered when I've been getting my mail-in test ballots on time and everything.
*Warning: you will get texted so use your disposable number
When I filled it out, email was required, phone was not.
Also, I use proton.me, and they have a really nice email masker, so you can generate throwaway email addresses, which is nice!
Doesn't matter where you are in the world, vote if you can. I'm lucky enough to be in an area of the US where we get mail ballots, so the worst I have to deal with are right wingers complaining mail in ballots lead to fraud and then doing it themselves by dumping mail.
