New York
In reply to the discussion: SO I CHECKED MY NY VOTER REGISTRATION STATUS [View all]stopbush
(24,580 posts)I'm sorry, that's just not credible.
And, yes - if you show up the day of the vote and only then find that you were disenfranchised, it is your fault to an extent, for the simple fact that you could have done something about it ahead of time. You have the power. Exercise it!
Voting is a privilege, a sacred privilege, in fact. Yes - you shouldn't have to worry about your name being scrubbed from a voter file, just like you shouldn't have to worry about some bozo running a stop sign at 80mph in a school zone. Guess what? It happens, through no fault of your own. You shouldn't have to worry about leaving your best dress out on the line when the weather man told you there was no chance of rain in the foreseeable future...and then it pours. Human beings make mistakes.
Fortunately, we can mitigate against those mistakes, because we know from our everyday experience that people fuck up, often to our disadvantage. But we can push back against the stupidities by not being stupid ourselves and just assuming that everything will be OK because, well, why wouldn't it just be OK?