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.
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.
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.
I’m down
Sugar on popcorn? Wow!
I’ve been sprinkling spicy pepper flakes. Oil, spice, salt and pepper… Chefs kiss.
I had exchange friends in high school and they were as freaked out by salt as i was by sugar. I like kettle because it’s the best of both.
Kettle corn is a sweet popcorn. Have you tried it?
I was today years old when I learned that kettle corn is sugar-flavored. I just thought it was like… Pixie magic I dunno Im brain damaged from lead.
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.
We use it for making vegan queso. Never thought of putting it on popcorn.
Great for helping develop those yeast infections.
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.
Sounds great, maybe I should try to make them myself, instead of buying them for the microwave.
Is chipotle normally super hot, or is it just Jalapnos? I like it hot, but not SUPER hot.
It’s riper, smoked jalapeno, so a bit hotter, but not by an order of magnitude.
Pro tip, buy bulk popping corn and you can just pop it in the microwave with a brown paper bag.
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
I’ve never been prouder to export our caramel freedom. 🫡
Serious question: Is this legit? Elon and his Nazi buddies are running fake voter registration sites
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.
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. Is your official government provided ones for this purpose.
That’s fair
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 pzrtiesw, 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 ( @[email protected] ):
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.
If you’re in Michigan the secretary of state website has a registration check and sample ballots but other sites have sample ballots too. That allows time to look into candidates, review voting history, maybe watch an interview or two, before going to vote.
“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.comfor the email. The site tells you whether you’re registered right away, without the need to check any emails they send.Looks like you can leave that field blank, and it’ll still work.
My thoughts exactly.
You get an SMS so use a spam phone number
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).
Apparently vote.gov is a thing.
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.
Its… just one click to stop the emails and texts…
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.
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.
Only accepts US phone numbers, so probably not for US citizens living abroad.
Phone number is not required. I left it blank and it worked.
Can you lose your voting rights in the USA?
Whaaaaat?
technically yes with a felony conviction, but this is referring to losing your voter registration not your rights
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
In the US, why do you need to register in order to vote? Doesn’t the government already know who can and cannot vote?
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.
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.
It’s only an issue because the voting laws aren’t federalized. Each state has its own criteria and register.
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.
That’s not entirely true.
Not an US citizen. And in my country tax returns are certainly easier than the US. And our country also have a system in which people below certain money can just go to the tax agency and a government employee will do your tax return for you. But it cannot be fully automated, as the government doesn’t actually know 100% what do you own.
When they send you letters after asking for things is for you to give them paper documentation on why you deducted some things, or because they are inspecting some things a your deduction raised a flag. But it’s not like they just know precisely how much everyone should pay. If it were that easy tax returns would not be a thing as it is in most of the world.
They know my tax liability based on the income reported to the IRS by my employer - but you’re right that something they don’t necessarily know is the variety of valid deductions you might be eligible to take. Part of the process of filing is also calculating your tax liability though - and that part of it they know precisely and rather than TELLING you, you’re expected to determine your own liability and heaven help you if it’s wrong.
Well, that’s bad then.
Where I live its true that that part of the tax refund is already filled by our IRS equivalent. We have to fill the income that they don’t know about, and our deductions, which can be quite complex.
There is no real “centralized authority” for elections in the US
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.
who’s downvoting and can you explain why?
because the very first thing you say in this post basically amounts to “I think I have the authority to decide the basis on which we determine who deserves to vote”
like, yeah, most people can navigate to their secretary of state websites. And it’s not really your responsibility to have to link the pages anyway.
But doing it for that reason aligns you philosophically with people who think that the illiterate, the elderly, the poor, the disabled, the critically ill, etc. somehow don’t deserve to vote. It aligns you ideologically with other people who think they can decide who deserves to vote, with people who want to disenfranchise others-- in essence, it aligns you ideologically with many Republicans
If someone is so inept that they are incapable of utilizing the internet or otherwise seeking help from a person who they trust, or (shock) reach out to their local authorities to navigate the very simple task of registering to vote then yes, I believe said individual is probably not in a position to cast a meaningful and informed vote. Does that disenfranchise people? Yes. There is a point in which we must draw a line in saying certain individuals are not eligible to participate in this system (which we do all the time; see: minors, felons, etc.)
That being said, my comment is not physically stopping a moron-incapable-of-using-google from registering to vote—further I provided general information on how to do it. I want everyone who can do so to vote.
Your opinion is very weird, friend.
How is wanting people to vote a weird opinion?
Says a group of people don’t deserve to vote.
Claims he wants people to vote.
Your logic is even weirder.
Ah, yes of course, because there can’t be any subtlety to how we feel societal systems be implemented—it must all be all or nothing. Regardless, nothing I posted is blocking people from voting or advocating for actual impediments. I just shared an aside that my personal opinion is that if someone is too stupid to figure out how to vote they probably shouldn’t be voting in the first place.
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…
How does one get a disposal number?
This is the kind of election post that’s necessary.
I hate seeing “Remeber to go vote!” posts the week before an election as if that’s all you need to do. In most places, you need some kind of enrollment activity before they let you vote on the day, bring ID, etc etc.
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.
