Facing death has a way of focusing the mind.

and mute Republican congressmen with draft age children..children who will die in a Trump vanity war...

and I heard Trump say his 20 year old son isn't eligible for the draft because he's too tall..my husband was 6'6 and he wasn't just drafted he survived Viet Nam...

Any excuse in that family.

won't have their kids included in the draft. They'll figure out some excuse (too tall, bone spurs, sensitive white skin....)....

They already had to register at 18. All this does is do it automatically for them so they dont need to remember to do it themselves, though most schools seem to help there. My high-school helped all seniors register to vote before graduation and all the men to register for selective service to ensure we could submit Fafsa applications. Not registering for selective service makes you ineligible for some federal and state benefits. Plus its technically a felony.

Big brother signing them up for a possible draft.

But no one can claim Americans are noticing anything these days.

It should be this easy. You hit 18, you’re registered for your current address. You move somewhere and automatic voter registration as soon as you sign up for utilities or change address on your services. And if you don’t have utilities, then easy change via online or phone

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They have forgotten the purpose of an election, which is to determine the will of the people

those for whom a future draft board may evaluate for draft eligibility. It's the first step in a two-step process where your local draft board makes a non-ministerial substantive determination. Follow-on actions, such as mailing you a notice of the board's determination, are ministerial functions that are exercised without making substantive decisions.

By contrast, voter registration combines the first two steps in the draft process. In voting registration, not only is your name incorporated on voter rolls, but actual voting eligibility is determined. After voting registration is complete, further steps are ministerial. and not substantial. Things like asking for your ID, or otherwise verifying your identity, comparing signatures, ensuring you are present at the correct voting place, and determining if you have already voted are ministerial functions in which voting officials do not determine if you are actually eligible to vote in the first place. That was done during registration, and after that, voting officials are just supposed to verify your identity, ensuring you receive the correct ballot, and process your ballot for counting.

Thanks for asking the question - it's important that people understand the differences in the draft and voting processes.

For context, the last men drafted in the US were inducted on June 30, 1973. The notifications for that induction had been issued on December 7, 1972. I had a low number and would have been in that group if I had not already been in the Army since July 3, 1972. With respect to voting, I served as a (2008 primary election) check-in judge and later as a (2008 general election) chief judge in our Maryland precinct. After my job transfer to Florida, I had no desire to be part of their process.

I show up at the poll and hand that to the woman watching the election book. And she lets me go in the booth and vote. I never show ID. I’ve been voting the same place for years. We never had a “voting integrity” question until Trump. as far as the draft, my brother had student deferments until they did the lottery and then he got a high number so we were very lucky there. He also had a medical deferment for an operation. It was the poor kids that went.

such as, do I want to go into combat with this POTUS in charge ?? Something to think about in ***EVERY*** election going forward.

Maybe Dems in Congress could author legislation *requiring* everyone registered to receive a legal notification of such.

My only real problem with the draft or compulsory service (military or otherwise) has been that I question its fairness when implemented. Flame away, it's just my opinion. The whole "some animals are more equal than others" often creeps in. Everyone has someone they'll miss, plans to do this or that, objections to conforming, etc... but it's the subjective weights given to various classes that usually seem to be what sours all this.

"Everyone can be called to serve!"***

*** = deferrals and exceptions shall be granted as follows...

None of this crap about him being too tall, he can afford a tailor

(and, yes - fully aware that the DOD, et.al., are primarily composed of troglodytes. past, present and future .. ?)

It’s not real macho to send your daughters into combat

He gets no special treatment.

Bone spurs do not count. He would have to be Medically certified to be exempt. Take him to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester.

I know people who were non citiezns that were in the US for school in the 60s and were drafted, after being disenrolled for grades and partying too much, and sent to Vietnam. One was a Russian citizen. Th US government reserved the right to draft any males over the age of 18 who were in the US for more than 6 months.

Let's hope Baron Trump is included in the "eligible men" column and that he's registered for the draft.

say lets demand Baron Trump is registered for the draft.

How do they obtain this information about young men? Birth certificates? Drivers license?

But with all the DEI hate just tell the recruiter you're a raging gay idiot whose parents were asylum seekers from Somalia, that's 3 red flags against ya. No fake medical condition needed.

Make it stop!!!

the US citizens are constantly being attack by the effed up Republican Party.

Vote this party out.

Our position should be to paint this as the precursor to a draft and we should be getting that message directly to every 18 to 25 year old man and his mother. And we should say this is the work of the republicans after you voted for them because they promised no more ridiculous wars.

My kingdom for a bot farm.

The draft was ended in 1972. The war was stopped a bit later.
Looks like they are trying to sneak it back into our lives.

Wasn’t watching