Holy Fraud Batmom – you really can register to vote from a street corner!

I had to renew my driver’s license, I did it online. They asked for voter registration information, even though I know my registration is up to date, I filled it out. I’m not sure what happened, but three days later I got a notice from the county clerk asking me to restate my residence address.

I read it over a few times, I was corn-fused. You can register to vote without a legal residence? With nothing more than cross streets and a brief description? Then excuse me, why the hell do they need my residence address? Assessor parcel number?

Here’s another question – if I can register to vote from a street corner, can I run for office in that district?

Sometimes, I’ll say, I lose faith in the government. How can they guarantee there’s no voter fraud when they allow people to register to vote from a street corner? But I have to provide a physical address in addition to my PO Box number – again, corn-fusing.

I believe voter fraud is real. I don’t believe county clerks across the country have the resources to check every voter. There’s no voter ID anymore, we all vote by mail, so how can they guarantee who’s turning in a ballot, registered at a street corner? Coincidentally, the 2020 election brought in a historic number of voters, “the century’s highest turnout.”

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/04/record-high-turnout-in-2020-general-election.html

Where did all those new voters come from? Were they eligible to vote in the district in which they registered? How were they informed about the issues, and by whom? Soooo many questions.

But I turned it in with my residence address anyway, because I believe that in order to be eligible to vote in a community, a person should have a somewhat permanent and serious stake in that community. I don’t think a physical residence address, at a real residence, is too much to ask.

I also believe that allowing people to vote without solving the problems that have left them without a physical residence address insinuates that living on the street is acceptable. It’s not. Furthermore, I believe that encouraging them to vote is not done out of any sincere wish to empower them but out of desire to manipulate their political power.

Last I’ll say, it undermines and devalues our elections, and our confidence that our votes make any sort of difference. But I’ll vote anyway, they won’t get rid of me that easily.