Voter registration (or enrollment) is the requirement that a person otherwise eligible to vote register (or enroll) on an electoral roll before they will be entitled or permitted to vote. Such enrollment may be automatic or may require application being made by the eligible voter. Because the registration process actually set some limit to the citizens of United States of America, people started to question this process. “why you should have to register to vote. Can we make this easier?”
“why do we need those photo I.D. laws? Well, I was missing the point. The point was they wanted to restrict the right to vote,” said Rep. Keith Ellison. Voter ID laws in the United States requires a person to provide some form of official identification before they are permitted to register to vote. And some claim this to be obvious racist and intended to suppress minority voting. Basically using photo I.D. to determine weather if you can vote is nothing different than poll taxes, literacy tests fifty years ago. They are choosing those people they think to be able to vote, giving power to them only. the voting process suppose to emphasize the right of every single citizen in this country, giving them equal power to decide their own president. However, the photo I.D. law ripping the power of part of the voters away from them, restrict their right to vote, making this process unfair. Also not the photo I.D. law are restricting the voters, for those of who cannot read is also unable to vote simply because there is no way they can do the registration. Some might argue that those people aren’t suppose to vote because they can’t even read their vote would be irresponsible. However, although they are not able to read, but still they can hear the informations from the others and having discussion and great insight on the presidential election. shutting the down is also turning down a great proportion of voices in United States of America.
Normally, voter applications take 30 days to process once they have been received and approved. This is something that is clearly very complex and not convenience for the voters. Just like the college application needed three weeks to deliver your SAT and TOEFL scores, which does not even make sense, it truly limited some better test score to be able to be submitted. Some dates require to register for the voting in states, what if thirty days before the election day the person is still outstate doing work and other important things that not able to be back to register for it. It’s reducing some of the voice because of this inconvenience progress.
To sum up, the voter registration not only give us inconvenience on voting but restricting the power on part of the voters. I my opinion such bias process should be banished so we can have a better condition for voting.
Picture source:
http://news.hamlethub.com/swyonkers/politics/2159-st-day-for-votes-registration
http://officeofstrategicinfluence.com/issues.php?issue=voterids
https://tcf.org/content/commentary/voter-suppression-by-the-numbers/
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