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Washington State To Allow Voter Registration Over Facebook
An anonymous reader writes "The Associated Press reports that the state of Washington will soon have an application available on its Facebook page that will let residents register to vote. Washington and other states already allow online registration, but this is the first time it will be allowed over Facebook. The state's co-director of elections, Shane Hamlin, said, 'In this age of social media and more people going online for services, this is a natural way to introduce people to online registration and leverage the power of friends on Facebook to get more people registered.' Facebook won't have access to the State's database, and Hamlin says Facebook won't collect any of the personal information with which it interacts."
Why make voting easy? Why not make it hard? That makes sure only people who care enough to at least truly believe in who they're voting for, instead of making elections a shallow beauty contest.
1: You lack a verb in your run-on sentence. Presumably another "vote" before the comma.
2: It doesn't make that sure at all. It will make it harder for anyone who doesn't have enough money to buy the services that's needed to get a vote.
The whole idea of "register to vote" is, IMHO, a scam meant to reduce the number of voters. You are registered to vote when you obtain a citizenship - that's what the citizenship means. If we want a democratic election, we need to stop disenfranchising -- in name or in game -- those who are not like "us".
Other countries manage this quite well.
If Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela had been American, they would both have been denied both a right to vote and a right to run for office.