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Re:One in 10 ballots rejected in last month’s vote-by-mail e... by ysavir on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:19PM (#24114110)
Would the 2020 census help alleviate the problem in this particular election cycle, since it's so chronologically close?
Re:One in 10 ballots rejected in last month’s vote-by-mail e... by cbhl on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:24PM (#24114162)
Voter rolls should only contain US citizens.

Census is "actual Enumeration” of “all persons", so you'd need to join/filter the data to remove people who are not citizens. Doing so would cause some folks to be afraid/unwilling to fill out the census.

2020 census is especially difficult because they haven't done as much (any?) door-to-door canvassing that usually happens during a census.

Re:One in 10 ballots rejected in last month’s vote-by-mail e... by ideals on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:29PM (#24114202)
They are doing some door knocks. They stopped by my house recently and left a card thing, I wasn't home.
Re:One in 10 ballots rejected in last month’s vote-by-mail e... by toomuchtodo on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:21PM (#24114135)
Unlikely, as the census can’t share granular census information with other parts of the government for decades. You need improvements in how voting rolls are updated and kept current (I’ve seen voting registration been done at the same time as acquiring a drivers license or state ID at a DMV, for example).

There is a lot of power in leaning on existing online resources for performing this work, where your identity and address verification has already been performed (or it can rapidly be performed in a way that is both inexpensive to government and so frictionless it does not disenfranchise the disadvantaged). You just need competent government leadership and technology practitioners who can rapidly glue it together (I know, crazy high hill to climb).