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> 1. Election on a Sunday. It’s not controversial, it’s bloody obvious. No one should even be able to find an argument against moving it.

Christian churches are used in my area as polling places. I would hate to know how far I would have to drive if they would no longer be used. How about Saturday?

>2. Automatic registration. Registration is just increasing the barrier to vote.

How do we "automatically" register someone? Location and age would be required. There is no system I am aware of which is automatically updated when a person moves. Requiring people to deal with state ids has already been decided as too onerous.

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> How do we "automatically" register someone?

When they get their driver's license or state-issued ID. Don't make it an option, just do it. That would take care of most people, since they have a state-issued driver's license or ID. It's the photo ID most people in the United States use. (I didn't own a car for close to 20 years and still had a driver's license as a photo ID.)

Although I initially registered to vote by going to the county courthouse; when I recently moved (in state) and got a new driver's license, the system asked if I wanted to update my voter registration. Don't make it an option, just automatically do it.

That should take care of most people.

1. Saturday, fine.

2. You need that system of a complete and up to date registry of people. It’s simply a prerequisite. It can be state based if a national system woukd be too scary (the state based registries would then have to communicate when someone moves across state lines). You have an intelligence apparatus that probably knows everything about everyone on the planet. It wouldn’t be difficult nor government overreach to just issue IDs and keep track of their addresses.

I get a letter when it’s time to vote, telling me where to go vote. Because they know where I live.

You know how they register in Canada? They don't - almost all adults in Canada are automatically in the national register.

And church doesn't often go on all day. Vote there in the afternoon. Or just set up in the hall and vote all day.

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