Where I live, your name and residential address is confirmed by a registrar before you are given the ballot paper. This prevents duplicity or incorrect voting. If you live in a new area but failed to update you previous residential address, therefore can’t be found, you vote under the old address and area once they can find you in that registry. If no details match or can be found, you don’t get to vote.
Not accounting for queue time, the former takes a minute, the latter takes about three as you have to go to another part of the booths where other national registrars attempt to locate and confirm you.
In Louisiana, they mail me voting cards of people who haven’t lived here in 25 years and are surely dead. But in fairness, the police also don’t care about laws so it evens out. Free and fair elections don’t matter if laws aren’t enforced anyway.
Where I live, your name and residential address is confirmed by a registrar before you are given the ballot paper. This prevents duplicity or incorrect voting. If you live in a new area but failed to update you previous residential address, therefore can’t be found, you vote under the old address and area once they can find you in that registry. If no details match or can be found, you don’t get to vote.
Not accounting for queue time, the former takes a minute, the latter takes about three as you have to go to another part of the booths where other national registrars attempt to locate and confirm you.
In Louisiana, they mail me voting cards of people who haven’t lived here in 25 years and are surely dead. But in fairness, the police also don’t care about laws so it evens out. Free and fair elections don’t matter if laws aren’t enforced anyway.
It’s not about who votes. It’s about who counts them.