Trump runs for POTUS / Trumped Up! Part IV

[Andy_Ross]

In the UK you register to vote every year using whatever address you are living at.
Everyone is added to the Electoral Roll when they are 16, even though they can't register to vote until 18.

 

[Tony Stark]

In the UK you register to vote every year using whatever address you are living at.
Everyone is added to the Electoral Roll when they are 16, even though they can't register to vote until 18.

Sounds like a good way to do it. Republicans want voter turn out to be low, so that would never fly in many states.

 

[The Don]

Sure, I know that's true. And I would say that in your case, wherever you were living was your legal, voting address, even if you lived in dorms or group houses that changed every year. That's also where you would have had your driver's license and paid your taxes. That was your only home. The dispute is about traditional college students who do return to family homes when they're not in school.

To me it makes a lot more sense to cast your vote where you spend 8-9 months of the year and where you have taken a decision to be instead of 3-4 months a year and where (one of your) parents happen to live.

I'd also be interested to know about the proportion of people who stay on in their university town/city after their undergraduate degree. It may be a lot different in the UK and it may depend a lot on where you go to university but a large proportion of alumni seem to stay on in the area either for postgraduate study or to work (it may also hold for the U.S. - there are still a lot of the MIT class of '88 living in and around Boston/Cambridge).

 

[Andy_Ross]

Sounds like a good way to do it. Republicans want voter turn out to be low, so that would never fly in many states.

A couple of weeks before an election you get a polling card if you are registered and a reminder letter so anyone at the address not registered can get on the ballot. You can return the form ptovided or go online and register so there are no excuses for not being up to date.

 

[erwinl]

In the UK you register to vote every year using whatever address you are living at.
Everyone is added to the Electoral Roll when they are 16, even though they can't register to vote until 18.

In the Netherlands it's even easier.
From the moment you are 18, you are automatically on the register for elections.

Whenever an election is held an election pass is send to your main address.
Then only thing you have to do is show your election pass with one of the prescribed ID's (passport, ID-card or drivers licence, which must be not more than 5 years past their end date) to be able to vote.

There are some rules concerning when you want to use a voting place other than the one on your election pass, but even there the intention is to make it as easy as possible for all to vote.

 

[Andy_Ross]

All you need to do to actually vote in the UK is go to your designated polling station and give your name. They cross you off the list and give you a voting card.
There is also an option to do a postal vote.

 

[SezMe]

Would be good to be a fly on the wall

"I'm going to make you pay for my wall"

"(Cracks up laughing) Nah. Piss off mate."

"Ok"

Not likely. But I could get behind, "Piss off, amigo."

 

[SezMe]

College students should be voting from their homes, by absentee ballot if necessary, and college dorms aren't anybody's primary legal residence. Dorms aren't usually even where the college mails their grades and bills. If a student actually establishes residence, he'll be able to prove it with an apartment lease, utility bills, a local driver's license, etc.

Is that first sentence your opinion or established law.

Apparently you think a student who lives in a dorm should not vote in that state but a student who rents an apartment can vote in that state. Really?

 

[erwinl]

All you need to do to actually vote in the UK is go to your designated polling station and give your name. They cross you off the list and give you a voting card.
There is also an option to do a postal vote.

That's very easy as well.

The difference is more that here every citizen over 18 automatically is registered.
The only exceptions are when your voting rights are taken away by a judge (can only be done when convicted for a crime that entails at least 1 years of imprisonment (and is not automatically so, but not sure about that last one)).

Legal aliens also can vote in county elections (but not for the larger elections) when present in the Netherlands for at least 5 years.

 

[SezMe]

All you need to do to actually vote in the UK is go to your designated polling station and give your name. They cross you off the list and give you a voting card.
There is also an option to do a postal vote.

That's how California does it.

 

[TubbaBlubba]

You don't need a ground game if you are going to cheat :

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-gops-stealth-war-against-voters-w435890

There really needs to be a constutional amendment establishing a compelling state interest basis for voter suppression.

 

[Tony Stark]

There really needs to be a constutional amendment establishing a compelling state interest basis for voter suppression.

The Republican low lifes would never go for it.

 

[bonzombiekitty]

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And Pennsylvania’s voter identification bill, still on the books for now, disallows many student IDs and non-Pennsylvania driver’s licenses, which means out-of-state students may be turned away at the polls.

PA's voter ID law may still be "on the books", but it's been overturned by the courts and AFAIK is currently completely dead. If you vote in PA, you only need to present some sort of identification the first time you vote in a given precinct. The acceptable forms of ID include

Any id issued by the state government (photo or not), military ID, passport, student ID, employee ID, voter registration confirmation card (mailed to you when you register to vote or change your registration), utility bill, bank statement, or government check.

If you vote by mail, a social security, driver's license, or state id number is sufficient.

After you vote that first time in your given precinct, you don't need anything.

 

[NoahFence]

So the POS POTUS hopeful is meeting with the Mexican President today. Any hope of him getting lost in the desert?

I have no idea why the Mexican President would even entertain this buffoon. It legitimizes his campaign in a way that is not deserved.

 

[Armitage72]

Given the amount of prep time needed by the Secret Service for any sort of international visit, a "last minute trip" is likely to amount to little more than a publicity stunt.

 

[halleyscomet]

Given the amount of prep time needed by the Secret Service for any sort of international visit, a "last minute trip" is likely to amount to little more than a publicity stunt.

Unless of course Trump is blowing off the security concerns of the secret service.

 

[NoahFence]

Will we see example #1 of a foreign head of state playing Trump like a fiddle?

 

[thaiboxerken]

Will we see example #1 of a foreign head of state playing Trump like a fiddle?

I do not expect the visit to actually occur.

 

[halleyscomet]

I do not expect the visit to actually occur.

Why not?

 

[acbytesla]

PA's voter ID law may still be "on the books", but it's been overturned by the courts and AFAIK is currently completely dead. If you vote in PA, you only need to present some sort of identification the first time you vote in a given precinct. The acceptable forms of ID include

Any id issued by the state government (photo or not), military ID, passport, student ID, employee ID, voter registration confirmation card (mailed to you when you register to vote or change your registration), utility bill, bank statement, or government check.

If you vote by mail, a social security, driver's license, or state id number is sufficient.

After you vote that first time in your given precinct, you don't need anything.

Thank you. Great.