10-10-2008, 01:00 PM
Ok the story is now also in the dutch press.
ACORN does let voters register (nothing illegal) but apparantly also registers non existing people.
So my question is; if every person in the US has a social security number that is written on his/her official photo-ID, why don't they just skip the whole registering to vote thing? Voting is a ground right of every person in a democracy so registration should not be necesarry.
Everybody that is normally registered at his town hall receives a card in the mail that asks him/her to come and vote. You take this card with you, and show your ID, then the man/woman at the voting office gives the person a ballot and he can vote. Also this person fills in the social security number of the person coming in to vote in the computer which is connected to the database with all americans that are eligible to vote. If the number has already been used (when somebody came in with a forged ID and forged voting card) it is time to undertake action. Right?
People that recently moved or don't have a permanent address should go to town hall to get a voting card when they are able to show a valid ID.
People that don't have a valid ID, or don't have a social security number, cannot get a voting card and so cannot vote.
What am I forgetting here?
My point is that if you can just register any name on any address (like ACORN is accused of doing) it seems that there is something wrong with the system.....if it would be so easy, 'everybody would' vote multiple times you would think.
ACORN does let voters register (nothing illegal) but apparantly also registers non existing people.
So my question is; if every person in the US has a social security number that is written on his/her official photo-ID, why don't they just skip the whole registering to vote thing? Voting is a ground right of every person in a democracy so registration should not be necesarry.
Everybody that is normally registered at his town hall receives a card in the mail that asks him/her to come and vote. You take this card with you, and show your ID, then the man/woman at the voting office gives the person a ballot and he can vote. Also this person fills in the social security number of the person coming in to vote in the computer which is connected to the database with all americans that are eligible to vote. If the number has already been used (when somebody came in with a forged ID and forged voting card) it is time to undertake action. Right?
People that recently moved or don't have a permanent address should go to town hall to get a voting card when they are able to show a valid ID.
People that don't have a valid ID, or don't have a social security number, cannot get a voting card and so cannot vote.
What am I forgetting here?
My point is that if you can just register any name on any address (like ACORN is accused of doing) it seems that there is something wrong with the system.....if it would be so easy, 'everybody would' vote multiple times you would think.