Official 2020 US Presidential Election Thread

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Torillian said:

Flilix said:
Hi, European user here. I don't understand all that much about American elections, but from what I've heard you need to register first to vote, and the number of people who actually vote is quite low. I've seen a lot of American celebrities almost begging people to register for voting.

I was wondering, is there any desire or discussion among Americans to make voting mandatory, or at least to get rid of the registration? It just seems to discourage people from actually taking the effort to vote.

Definitely talk about making registration automatic for anyone with a social security card. I think Hillary Clinton was proposing that before the 2016 election.

The issue is you have one party who knows they don't win the popular vote, so they do everything they can to make things a bit more difficult as they know that'll disproportionately affect demographics that aren't as likely to vote for them. Like this year you have republican governors restricting ballot drop boxes to one per county. That fucks over urban counties with much higher populations far more than it does rural counties with lower populations. 

Well, there's hope the GOP is growing weaker and weaker now. Their membership numbers have dropped a lot over the last decades and now have a third less members compared to the democratic party (32M to 45M), even less than registered independent voters (33M). By comparison both parties were at around 55M members each in 2000, with a slight advantage to the democrats.

This will soon become untenable even with these voter elimination tactics, and so they'll have to change course sometime soon unless they want to fade and get replaced by another party like the Whigs did before them.