New York
In reply to the discussion: SO I CHECKED MY NY VOTER REGISTRATION STATUS [View all]stopbush
(24,580 posts)Yes, if we lived in a world of unicorns, people wouldn't make honest mistakes. Rules would be magically waived by mere thought.
But we don't live in such a world. We live in a world run by human beings whose simple mistakes often have much greater consequence than any nefarious plot ever could. So we realize this, and as adults, we trust ourselves above other humans to whom we are nothing but a number, and insure that we will be heard as part of our civic duty.
So we check our voter registration. We make sure our driver's license is in our wallet and our wallet is in our possession before we leave home, not because our license gets checked every day, but because it might get checked THAT day. And if it happens that the one day we forget our wallet and we get pulled over by the cops, our getting cited for not having our license was not the result of some nefarious mini-cam the cops place in our home so they could put out the APB for us once they realized we left our wallet on the kitchen counter. It was because shit happens, and it always seems to happen the ONE time you make that small mistake.