Friday, October 17, 2008

How to Fix the Voter Registration System

All Americans have the right to vote in this country yet why are people not registered to vote at birth and then allow them to activate their voter registration at the age of eighteen? We give babies social security cards at birth to keep control of the system. If voter registration was treated like a right rather then a chore maybe the problem would go away. Each voter could be given a card at birth just like a social security card. The system could work in the same manner so that you would use that number to change your address, pick a party and or activate you registration. The system would provide a complete list of all voters for each county in the country with their current address so that voter fraud would simple not have a chance to develop. County clerks could assist voters in activating their card and in changing addresses. It would encourage non Americans to become Americans in order to have the right to vote. We do not live in the dark ages of technology so a complete system could be created to track voters in this country. If each of the parties can develop such a system then the federal government should have far less difficulties in doing the same for all Americans.