Re:One in 10 ballots rejected in last month’s vote-by-mail e...
by pbhjpbhj on Monday August 10, 2020 @07:03PM
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>There are too many cases where you might file taxes in one place but be eligible to vote in another. //
Is the eligibility wrong though?
There has been a sort of reverse Gerrymandering [1] in the UK where voters are instructed where to vote to have the most effect, people with second homes (which can include students but otherwise would seem to be exclusively rich people) might qualify this way in the UK.
Generally this indicates to me the need for electoral reform. But perhaps tighter regulation about where one may vote (restricting eligibility when one is eligible elsewhere) is also needed in some places?
That being said, it doesn't seem like it would be hard to have a national voter database that shows each voter and where they are registered, with the ability to notify districts when someone shows up elsewhere, combined with a national registry of death certificates.