It’s bad in the USA because they have an aversion to all forms of registration.
It’s unnecessary in most of Europe because they already have functional registries.
I don’t know enough about UK election procedures to figure out why they thought it was necessary. It’s probably not, but it’s easy points for someone wanting to signal that they’re doing something against the fictional illegal immigrants who are supposedly voting en masse whenever the right wing politicians don’t get their way…
That is…not why it’s bad in the USA. It’s bad in the USA because it’s used as a tool for voter suppression historically against black and brown people.
But sure, we’re all afraid of registration, when you have to do that to vote either way 🙄
it’s easy points for someone wanting to signal that they’re doing something against the fictional illegal immigrants who are supposedly voting en masse whenever the right wing politicians don’t get their way…
It’s bad in the USA because they have an aversion to all forms of registration.
It’s unnecessary in most of Europe because they already have functional registries.
I don’t know enough about UK election procedures to figure out why they thought it was necessary. It’s probably not, but it’s easy points for someone wanting to signal that they’re doing something against the fictional illegal immigrants who are supposedly voting en masse whenever the right wing politicians don’t get their way…
That is…not why it’s bad in the USA. It’s bad in the USA because it’s used as a tool for voter suppression historically against black and brown people.
But sure, we’re all afraid of registration, when you have to do that to vote either way 🙄
Yeah, that’s basically it.