I double and triple checked my and my 18 year old daughter’s voter registration. It was my resolution to be more politically involved in local politics this year. Our voter registration is active and current. I double and triple checked our polling locations.
We were turned away from two polling locations. VoteTexas showed that we were both active and current and eligible to vote in today’s special elections. We went to two of the polling locations that we were supposed to have been able to vote at. Both locations told us the same thing- that we were not found in their systems and that we weren’t eligible to vote in the current election. We made sure it was within our precinct. No answer as to why. We even had my daughter’s voter registration card which they looked at/ ran, and had no explanation as to why we couldn’t vote other than we “weren’t in the system”.
The workers there were very helpful- they took about 25 minutes each to double check. They told me to check with the TXSOs, whom I have emailed.
We live in Harris County, Katy TX. We pay taxes for both Katy ISD and CFISD and my kids attend school in Katy ISD. Our house is on the border of Katy and CYFair and we pay taxes to both but had a choice in which district to send our kids.
I can’t understand how we can pay taxes to a district but aren’t allowed to vote in their elections???
Originally Posted By u/OrdinarySubstance491 At 2025-05-04 01:32:22 AM | Source
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They should have been able to cast provisional ballots.
Voter registration is in itself undermining democracy. You can’t have a democracy, if every single elegible person isn’t allowed to vote at a moment’s notice.
I don’t think registration is a problem. It’s the fact that you can be deregistered.
In South Africa, you get automatically registered as a voter when you receive your national ID document at 16. At that point you only need to register where you intend to vote once. We usually get 3 voter registration weekends at every polling station weeks before any election.
America’s elections are really disorganized and antiquated, even compared to a mid-sized African country. It really should be something handled at the federal level and standardized along with a federal ID system.
But what is the whole point of registering to vote? If you don’t have to register, every single person who is eligible to vote, will be able to vote. Even if they figure they want to vote half an hour before the polls close.
I simply can’t see any point that isn’t votersuppression for why you should have to register to vote. There is no point in having a register of possible voters in an anonymous voting system.
It’s mostly for vote integrity. It makes sure that no-one can vote twice. It also makes sure that no-one can stuff ballot boxes.
Voter suppression comes in when laws around it are poorly written, or poorly implemented. It’s still crazy to me that voting in the US is not handled by a non-political federal level organization like it is in most mature democracies.
It’s so you can be on the voter roll and be marked off when you vote, they can then confirm if anyone has been running around to multiple polling stations voting multiple times.
Or if someone has been stuffing ballot boxes.
It’s not anonymous though. Your specific selections on the ballot are supposed to be private but who you are and whether or not you cast a ballot are not. Your overall point is sound but the system is not intended to function in the way you’re describing.
Does the USA not register voters at the polls?
Some places you just show an Id and go. But that all depends on how much your state hates the poors. Extra barriers ensure that mostly the right people are voting. You would not want peasants votes to be flooding the zone too much.
our blue state allows you to register at the polls, red state makes it extremely difficult if not impossible to vote for Democrats.
Different states might do it different ways, but in my state, you have to be already registered.
