I wonder if there's a solution in there though... maybe landlords should have to report tenants on their federal taxes or something?
We need to move to a unique ID per person with password, that you can link to email(s), phone(s) or both. And then we can have on-line voting.
It’s just exhausting. Just have an account with the government, fill out your ballot, hit submit, post the votes publicly that are counted and let people find their ballot by some ID number if they want and call it a day.
I’m willing to bet that more people than not are more than willing to use this system.
And if your boss or landlord or spouse or cult leader hints that you should show them you voted the correct way, what do you do?
I admit that's not a perfect system, but it might skew the outcome of the vote less than a system where governors can selectively reduce the number of polling locations, and staff working at them, to produce hour-long lines of people risking catching a potentially deadly disease from each other.
For all the benefits it would bring, that's a silly reason to throw it all away.
How do you decide which elections a person is eligible to vote in? There are district, city, county, state-level polls and your residency determines which elections you're eligible to vote in
It does require some sort of system to register citizens of course. But almost all our public IT does that and we’ve had it since before IT became a thing. Which is easier in a small country, but there is no reason it couldn’t scale.