Them trying to buy Judges indicates that Judiciary still holds power in the US at least to some extent

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      It is! Some countries use a “permanent” ink to prevent voting twice, but yes, just let people vote.

      Let’s imagine one person one vote, but without voter ID. Now, one person can be 10 people…IF that one person wants to set the record for “easiest voter fraud conviction ever.”

      In-person election fraud isn’t a thing that statistically happens.

      However, requiring an ID does SUPPRESS turnout in countries that are deporting so quickly they sometimes accidently deport their own citizens and can’t get them back (true story bro).

      So you fixed a problem that doesn’t exist, but hurt poor and marginalized people. Sounds like a shitty idea.

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        Are you suggesting voter ID laws suppress turnout in most modern European democracies?

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      In my country i just get my vote-note in the mail. In America you now have to own a passport which most doesn’t, be a member of a party, which 90mil eligible voters aren’t, and hope that your boss has the same political views as you, so he lets you off work to go vote.

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            In America you now have to own a passport which most doesn’t, be a member of a party, which 90mil eligible voters aren’t, and hope that your boss has the same political views as you, so he lets you off work to go vote.

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              There are only 160mil valid passports in America right now.

              You are right though that you can be a registrerede voter with no party affiliation, but there are still 50mil eligible voters that haven’t registrered.

              And do you deny that a lot of Americans have a hard time getting off of work to go vote? That making election day a national holiday would not easily make a lot more people participate in the countrys democracy?

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                I would argue that having an early voting period spanning over several days is more effective than a single national holiday to enable more people to participate. ​As of August 2024, 47 U.S. states, along with the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, offer early in-person voting to all voters.