YSK Americans, check to see if you can vote. Its real quick.

Serious question: Is this legit? Elon and his Nazi buddies are running fake voter registration sites

Sorry non-Americans that the American political landscape is a shit show. I hope you're enjoying the popcorn.

Do other countries eat popcorn?

It is wild to me that in the US you're not automatically registered to vote. The idea that you have to go through a manual process to exert one of your most basic constitutional rights is unfathomable to me.

Here when you turn 18 you can just vote. It's that simple. No registration, no ticking a checkbox somewhere, you can simply go out there and vote the moment you're 18.

Can you lose your voting rights in the USA?

Whaaaaat?

"Warning: you will get texted so use your disposal number."

Umm... What?

Why vote.org and not vote.gov???

Just as a PSA, if anyone is concerned about malfeasance in the voter registration process, go to your state of residence’s Secretary of State website or the main State Website. I will not post any links becuase if you can’t navigate the web to find an official website I really don’t think you should be voting—sorry kids, mids and olds.

Your state’s Secretary of State website will have instructions on how to both register to vote and to actually vote. Your state’s official website will also have the same information if your state doesn’t have that office and registration is controlled by some other entity.

We (united states citizens) live in a federation and the reality of that is most elections are handled by local powers so there are some ocassional differences in how voting is administrated, key point—go to your locality’s OFFICIAL websites to find how to register to vote.

It really does matter. There are elections beyond the presidency. Hate your senator? vote, hate your Representative? VOTE. HATE YOUR STATE REPS? FUCKING VOTE? Live in a state where ballot initiatives are a thing??? FUCKING VOTE!!!!

it doesnt cost money. just register and educate yourself on what’s on the ballot and go to the goddamn polls. there are a lot of issues causing problems right now in the US but at least one thing we can do is go to the ballots on election days and vote based on our convictions.

I commend vote.org for doing everything they can to get people registered, especially in areas where one side does everything possible to make the voting process as difficult as functionally possible...

...but be warned you will be drowning in emails from vote.org.

The USian system is so bizarre.

Here in Brazil everybody HAS to register when turning 18. The registration can get suspended if you miss an election without justification, but you get a fine for each time.

Voting is not a right, it's a duty.

In the US, why do you need to register in order to vote? Doesn’t the government already know who can and cannot vote?

This system is so fucking dumb. Get with the times, America

Imagine not just getting a letter explaining where to go vote on which day or if you prefer how to vote by post.

Haha, get fucked. I already get flooded with emails and text messages because I made some donations in 2020. I'll never participate by giving up contact info again. Good job poisoning the well, Dems (I donated to Bernie and other progressives, now I'm hounded by first Biden and then Harris campaigns).

Warning: you will get texted so use your disposal number.

That field was optional. Just don't put your phone number in at all.

Also it would have been weird if it came back and said I wasn't registered when I've been getting my mail-in test ballots on time and everything.

*Warning: you will get texted so use your disposable number

When I filled it out, email was required, phone was not.

Also, I use proton.me, and they have a really nice email masker, so you can generate throwaway email addresses, which is nice!

Doesn't matter where you are in the world, vote if you can. I'm lucky enough to be in an area of the US where we get mail ballots, so the worst I have to deal with are right wingers complaining mail in ballots lead to fraud and then doing it themselves by dumping mail.

How does one get a disposal number?

If you're in Michigan the secretary of state website has a registration check and sample ballots but other sites have sample ballots too. That allows time to look into candidates, review voting history, maybe watch an interview or two, before going to vote.

This is the kind of election post that's necessary.

I hate seeing "Remeber to go vote!" posts the week before an election as if that's all you need to do. In most places, you need some kind of enrollment activity before they let you vote on the day, bring ID, etc etc.

Only accepts US phone numbers, so probably not for US citizens living abroad.

when I asked if they changed their mailing address and checked their voting status, we discovered they weren’t.

They weren't what?

Don't tell me whom I should or should not know.