#voter id verification

[townpostin]

Joint Chief Electoral Officer Reviews Voter List Revision in Mango, Jamshedpur

Subodh Kumar inspects voter list verification at Hill View Colony in Jamshedpur West. Subodh Kumar, Joint Chief Electoral Officer, conducted an inspection of the voter list revision in Hill View Colony, Mango, under Jamshedpur West Assembly Constituency. JAMSHEDPUR – The Joint Chief Electoral Officer, Subodh Kumar, reviewed the voter list revision process at Hill View Colony, Mango, in Jamshedpur…

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Somaliland Field Tests IRIS BVVS to be Used for November Polls

#Somaliland tests iris-based Biometric #VoterVerification System for Nov elections. Partnership with @IrisID & @NeametricsAfrica aims to ensure secure & transparent voting process. System audit completed, stakeholder meeting planned. #BVVS

Continue reading Somaliland Field Tests IRIS BVVS to be Used for November Polls

[mokubetech]

Looking to verify your Google AdSense account in 2024? Watch this video for a step-by-step guide on how to complete the verification process and start earning from your website or YouTube channel with AdSense!

[luckyladylily]

Right now is not the time to play voter chicken. There are so many things riding on the 2024 US election. If conservatives gain full control we are likely looking at:

Complete loss of any environment protection gains in the past 4 years and potential loss of even more environment protection, like clean air laws.

National transgender obscenity laws effectively banning trans people from existing. There are already prototype laws being pushed in West Virginia. Without any legislative roadblocks going national is entirely in the cards.

A national ban on abortion on the books as law.

A complete stop to all efforts at student loan forgiveness and, perhaps more importantly, efforts to ease the burden of student loans on the poor, which would push millions of Americans into poverty and more into deep poverty by costing them hundreds of dollars a month. (My family, for example, would be out nearly 2400 dollars a year, and I have a relatively low amount.) This will kill people as they can't afford basics like shelter and food any longer.

Restrictive and privacy compromising obscenity laws. Right now multiple red states require photo ID to be collected by every website that distributes adult material. Remember, they are trying to get all queer materials declared obscene as well, this isn't just about porn.

Restrictive and privacy compromising laws in other areas. For example, Utah already has a law on the books that goes into effect on March 1 which requires age verification for all social media users, permission from parents for any social media use for a minor, and automatic curfew functions for social media for minors. This is transparently an attempt to cut off young queer people from their peers or force them to out themselves to potentially queerphobic parents.

Restrictive voting laws will make voter suppression even worse. Again, prototype bills already exist in many red states, going national is a virtual certainty if conservatives get control of the national government.

I restricted myself to just things with prototype bills at the state level or have been key republican talking points that i could remember off the top of my head. It is no exaggeration to say that there is a real difference between even a deadlocked government like we have now and a conservative government that is measured in human suffering and death.

It is a virtual certainty that most of these will happen with a conservative controlled government. Frankly, I doubt we have the ability to stop even one of these things via protest or public outrage. Our best and probably only chance of stopping these and other terrible laws is preventing a government that would pass these laws.

[liberalk1tsch]

In honour of Katniss’ birthday yesterday, I invite everyone to also remember the real-life men, women, and children in Palestine enduring unimaginable suffering in the midst of an actual war. To be aware of the censorship being deployed against protesters of this violence by corporations at the hand of unjust governments.

As you may or may not know, on the 6th of May, Macklemore released a song called "HIND’S HALL" in support of Palestine, where 100% of proceeds from streaming will go to supporting UNRWA.

Hind Rajab was a 6-year-old girl from Gaza. In January 2024, she and her family were shelled by the Israeli army while in their car. Hind and her 15-year-old cousin, Layan Hamadeh, were the only survivors, trapped within the car. They called the Palestinian Red Cross Society, with Layan saying, "They are shooting at us. The tank is right next to me. We're in the car, and the tank is right next to us." The PCRS sent a team to rescue them. However, after 12 days, on February 10th, when the Israeli army withdrew from the area, Hind Rajab and her six relatives were found dead in the car, along with the two paramedics sent to rescue them, who were also found dead nearby.

The song is not available on Spotify yet. It is not available on Apple Music yet. It’s available only on Youtube, where—for the first time in the 15+ years i’ve been using Youtube—they have placed an 18+ age restriction on the video that includes multi-step age verification, where viewers must prove their age with a government ID, credit card, or submit a photo of themselves to an AI age recognition program (that oftentimes won’t even load).

This is absolutely abhorrent of Youtube/Google to censor this video, especially in the light of the recent attacks on Rafah, where thousands of Palestians have been cornered in what was previously considered the final "safe" zone.

Macklemore has since reuploaded a second video including audio only which has not been age restricted (yet), but the lack of imagery greatly alters the impact of his message. Many people may not feel comfortable verifying their identity to a corporation we know to be corrupt. Others may not be "old enough" to see it, though as the next generation of voters, as the primary group fighting for peace, you all deserve to see the truth of what’s happening in the world. I have screenrecorded the video and attached it to this post, but if there’s any of you who have already verified your age or feel comfortable doing so, please visit and interact with the original video here to contribute to aid efforts. If you are under 18 or do not wish to verify your age, the audio only video can be found here. Remember that your streams hold power, and even those who have nothing to give themselves can make an impact.

Additionally, most of the people who interact with my blog are Hunger Games fans. You were all outraged when the men, women, children, medics were bombed in the books, when it was fictional characters. So why would you stay silent when it’s happening in real life?

Free Palestine. 🍉

[briskettimefestival]

A post election forensic test is needed

This was the political party that removed legal voters off voter rolls in multiple states (some within 90 days before the election, which wasn't permissible), narrowed the amount of voting locations, did away with voter drop boxes, made the presenting voter ID for verification more complicated, had multibillionaires shoving money into races, had ads that were completely false and ran such a lackluster campaign in the past several months.

So the election is being considered a failure by Democrats, with much handwringing and self doubt. Stop it!

The Harris Waltz ticket ran one of the best presidential campaigns in American political history. Sure they could've lost the election, but comparing how each party ran their campaigns... something feels off.

And oh - doesn't the false bomb threats in the seven swing states, some of which were of Russian origin, sound worth investigating? Considering the election interference in 2016 and 2020 plus the well-noted foreign interference during this election season, consider the odd ways the Republican party behaved...shouldn't a look into their operations be considered.

These aren't conspiracies, but logical thoughts rumbling in my head. Something isn't normal now, especially the MAGA Republicans post-election silence.

Trump may have won, but there are questions...

Also, if Democrats had such a electoral map, Republicans would be shrieking to hell that this election had been illegitimate.

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[darkmaga-returns]

Full PDF of the article below.

Over the past two decades you may have noticed that court cases are being dismissed more frequently due to a lack of standing. The doctrine of standing and other Dismissal Doctrines have been used to deny The People our most foundational right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances, id est, access the courts for dispute resolution. Given the imminence of a historic election, a recent petition to the Supreme Court is explored here in the context of standing.

A Petition for Writ of Mandamus regarding state election processes was filed on October 16, 2024 in the Supreme Court of the United States. The Petitioners, FormerFedsGroup Freedom Foundation (FFF), served the Respondents, “50 States Secretaries of State” with the petition. Expedited emergency review was requested.

Replying via text message to an inquiry regarding status, Bradford Geyer, Founder of FFF, responded, “all Secretaries of State (including DC — that included 4 Lt. Governors acting as SoS’s)” were served “by email on Thursday October 17, 2024.” Geyer added, “On Saturday we sent by certified return receipt requested…that they should receive today [10/22/2024] at the latest.”

A Writ of Mandamus is “an order from a court to an inferior government official ordering the government official to properly fulfill their official duties or correct an abuse of discretion.” The All Writs Act (28 U.S. Code § 1651) by Act of Congress establishes the authority for the Supreme Court and all courts to issue writs of mandamus.

FFF’s petition, summarized, is a request for the Supreme Court to order all 50 states to use “absolute voter identification, paper ballots and hand counting for the 2024 general elections…” FFF asserts that serious election issues currently involve “vulnerabilities in voter registration, voter verification, vote tabulation, 

[the-eternal-quest-for-balance]

Lying about Trump and Project 2025 and resisting age verification. Sounds a lot like Democrats not wanting voter ID. Both instances where the self interest of power and money do not care about the collateral damage associated with their stance.

[spiritualcuriosities]

[photo id: a screenshot of a Tumblr post by acnews. The headline reads: "14% of illegal immigrants in Georgia report being registered to vote in US elections".]

I refuse to reblog this directly, but this is a really great example of why evaluating sources and basic knowledge of statistics is important.

This "news outlet" makes the outlandish claim that 14% of undocumented Georgia residents are registered to vote. If you actually read the article, they give their source as the Heritage Foundation - the same group that created Project 2025 - who they say released a video interviewing residents of a specific apartment complex asking if they were documented and if they were registered to vote in the US.

Obviously the Heritage Foundation is a v biased and unreliable source of information, but they are also taking this to be fact with no further verification with things like, oh I dunno Public Record. Registered voters are a matter of public record (with some exceptions, like abuse survivors who can request to not have their info public). We have no idea if they paid ppl to answer a certain way or otherwise coerced them.

Another glaring issue: the headline claims a statistic of 14% of undocumented residents in Georgia. But they only interviewed people at a single apartment complex that is "known" to have a lot of undocumented residents. That's not close to being representative of all undocumented residents in Georgia. Even if the interviewees were being honest, they could be (and likely would be) outliers.

This isn't even a "Spiders Georg was an outlier" thing this is like saying "33% of people who live in caves eat over 10,000 spiders a day. We know because we talked to Spiders Georg who lives in a cave with 2 other people who don't eat any spiders. Surely this is accurate for all cave dwelling communities".

And again, that's IF the interviewees were even being honest, which is doubtful because the interviewer was Heritage Foundation scum

[lenenpopularity]

Discord Popularity Poll Voter ID system

Due to the influx of non-discord users who joined last year's popularity poll, we're introducing a new Voter ID system! Please read the rules carefully, and keep your DMs open so I may message you back for verification.

Form is in both EN and JP.

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

Officially the first election in my adult life that I have not voted in, and it's the voter ID laws that get me lmao

I'm honestly really frustrated, I'd taken the time to get my ballot prep done just in case and there were a few things I really wanted to add my number to, but you have to present a photo ID with your legal name and address verification to register, and I lacked those things, and then the registration period ended and it didn't matter.

It is truly exhausting to me how hard I worked only for it to not pan out, and then if this all goes to hell in a hand basket, it'll be all about how voters just didn't turn out enough and not the unprecedented voter interference (ACTUAL voter interference, not just people having political opinions in public you disagree with/dislike) and the lack of adequate candidates for people to have fought against that for. I just want for once for our political leaders to hold themselves accountable to us rather than the other way around.

[townpostin]

Review Meeting Held for Voter Special Summary Revision Program-2024 in Jamshedpur

Arvind Anand chairs meeting to review voter list update and related activities. Meeting highlights progress in voter list revision, verification, and digitization. JAMSHEDPUR – A review meeting for the Second Special Summary Revision Program-2024 took place on Friday at the Collectorate Auditorium. The meeting was chaired by Arvind Anand, who is the Principal Secretary of the Election Commission…

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Somaliland Adopts Biometric Voter Verification System for November 13th Elections

#Somaliland takes a major leap towards election integrity with the adoption of an #IRIS-based #BiometricVoterVerificationSystem for the November 13th elections, ensuring a free, fair, & transparent voting process. #ElectionIntegrity @SLNECHQ

Continue reading Somaliland Adopts Biometric Voter Verification System for November 13th Elections

[smartertoday]

Let’s have a non-partisan conversation about voting rules.

I posit, that the only legitimate goal of voting rules is maximizing the participation of eligible voters in every election.

I posit, further, that there are only three intellectually valid requirements for voting: age, citizenship, and residency.

Age is a legitimate requirement because we are talking about making grown up decisions about our lives and our futures. These decisions should be made only by people who are experienced and mature enough emotionally and intellectually to be able to do so well. We know the brain’s centers for logic, empathy, and risk assessment are not fully developed until the mid 20’s. We have settled on a different age — 18 years — because that is the age one is subject to conscription into the military and, as the old bumper stickers used to say, “if you’re old enough to die for your country you’re old enough to vote.” It seems there is some logic to that approach, until you realize that the reason we conscript 18 year olds is because they are not fully formed and will obey orders to take a hill and kill its current occupants with less hesitation. They have a sense of invincibility and immortality that enables them to take greater risks and a lack of empathy that allows them to devalue the life of people who are “other.”

Citizenship and residency are legitimate and related in purpose. Both are an attempt to limit voting to those who are full members of our polity, individuals with a stake in the game. It’s the opposite of “taxation without representation.”The idea is that only people who must live under the consequences of enacted policies and who pay the taxes to fund them should be eligible to vote on deciding the policies and imposing the taxes. In some circumstances, especially at the local level, being a current resident may be more important than being a citizen; hence states could make a legitimate decision to allow non-citizen residents to vote in local elections on local policies if that is the consensus of their polity.

In this sense, having a valid state issued ID is not a separate eligibility requirement, but merely a procedure for establishing age, residence, and citizenship, the actual criteria.

These rules of procedure, should be judged and applied only in the context of satisfying the fundamental rules of eligibility within the overall goal of maximizing participation for those who are eligible.

For, example, requiring a complete and accurate return address on a mail-in ballot and attestation by an independent person that the named person completed, signed, and returned the ballot is not itself a separate requirement for eligibility to vote, but a way of establishing a legitimate requirement of eligibility to vote, and therefore should be adopted, interpreted, and enforced only in a way that promotes the over arching goal of maximizing participation. Thus, no one should be excluded from voting because the verification form has a place to print a zip code that was left blank or that was completed incorrectly. It is physical residency, not knowledge of zip codes that makes one eligible, and elevating form over substance functions to exclude eligible voters, not promote full participation, and should not be allowed to act as the arbitrator of participation.

Do you agree? Your comments and counter arguments are invited so that we can all become smarter today than we were yesterday.

[ausetkmt]

Undocumented immigrants cannot vote anywhere in the United States

This Wasn't Always the Case

In the early years of the American republic, virtually every state-granted suffrage (the right to vote) either to residents who intended to become U.S. citizens, or to everyone, regardless of their citizenship status. (Only if they were adult males, of course; women weren't granted the right to vote until 1920.)

By the turn of the 20th century, however, those more lenient policies gave way to tighter restrictions on noncitizens' right to vote. The last state to restrict the voting rights of noncitizens was Arkansas, in 1926.

Naturalized Citizens Can Vote

That said, there is a way for noncitizens to gain the right to vote: Naturalized U.S. citizens – people from other countries who have established residency in the United States and have applied for permanent citizenship – can vote once they become citizens.

Still, becoming naturalized is not guaranteed, and it can take a long time to happen. You must become a legal resident in the United States and live here for five years before you can apply for citizenship.

In the majority of cases, noncitizens holding permanent resident status verification (also called a green card) cannot vote in federal elections.

Legal permanent residents are allowed to vote in specific local elections in a handful of states and cities, including San Francisco and Chicago (local public school council elections).

Undocumented immigrants cannot vote anywhere in the United States.

Are You Allowed to Vote? An Imperfect Science

Finding out whether or not you're allowed to vote can be a confusing process. A federal law that took effect in 1995 — the so-called "Motor Voter" law — requires motor vehicle service offices to offer you voting registration materials when you apply for a driver's license or an ID card. Having those registration materials in hand, though, does not equal the right to vote. Some states have tweaked the 1995 law by allowing DMV clerks to ask you whether you are a citizen before handing over registration cards.

Advocates for the right of noncitizens to vote maintain that anyone who works and pays taxes in the United States should have that privilege. They think that keeping such residents from voting amounts to taxation without representation, which is one of the principles the United States' founding fathers fought against.

Voter Fraud Concerns

Much of the determination to keep noncitizens from voting arises from fears of voter fraud, in which ineligible residents vote. In 2011, the Florida Department of State identified hundreds of noncitizens who had been registered to vote, some of whom had been allowed to vote in past elections.

Punishment for violating that law range from a fine to deportation to prison time. The state of Texas prosecuted 33 people in 2018 for illegally casting ballots, and that same year, officials in North Carolina charged 19 foreign nationals for similar infractions – even though nine of them were legal permanent residents.

In California, a law passed in 2016 did away with legal punishment for noncitizens who are inadvertently registered to vote by DMV staff, as when a clerk fails to properly verify the voter's registration.

Not Like This Everywhere: Noncitizen Voting Rights in Other Countries

The rules are not so strict in some other countries. Between the 1960s and the 1990s, 15 countries in Europe, Latin America, and the British Commonwealth gave noncitizens varying levels of voting rights. At least 45 foreign countries have approved some kind of suffrage program for immigrants.

On many occasions, these rights were granted in reciprocity with affiliated nations; the reasoning being that little harm can come from a citizen of Nation A voting in Nation B, and vice-versa. In most cases, the right of noncitizens to vote in those countries is restricted to local or district elections.

Noncitizen Voting in Local Elections

Some cities and states make concessions for noncitizens who wish to vote. In 2017, San Francisco passed Proposition N, which gave noncitizen residents of the city the right to vote in school board elections if the voter was the parent or legal guardian/caregiver of a child in the city's school system.

Right now, 14 local governments let noncitizens vote in local elections. Eleven of those governments are in Maryland and two are in Vermont.

Eight other states have tried in recent years to enact legislation that would relax the rules regarding noncitizen voters, but with little luck. All have been either voted down, stalled in one legislative chamber or another or are still pending.

Since 2003, the state of New York has tried unsuccessfully four times to change laws restricting noncitizen voters. Although New York City passed an ordinance allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections, a state court judge struck it down in June 2022 as unconstitutional.

Find Out If You Can Vote: Speak to an Attorney

If you're not sure of whether or not your citizenship status allows you to vote, contact an election law attorney in your state.

[anyonghalimaw]

i fucking hate arranging all my shit for my ids i have no drivers license no voters id no national id (but then again Who has their natl id. like what. 5 people?) no postal id and noneof these fucking establishments accept my pwd as verification for ANYTHINGGGGGGGGGG fuck this country