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"You won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians."
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Well, considering it's quite a simple concept and has worked without problems in many places for many decades, I think we can exclude the possibility that it may be "challenging" (except insofar as it may be challenging to convince voters and politicians to do it).
I don't doubt that it works well in many places.
It would probably work well in many places in the US.
I was just thinking about places like Washing state that don't have a state income tax, so combining taxation and voter registration would not be as straight forward as other places.
For better or worse the US constitution gives authority over most elections issues to the states, which means that we don't have one national voting system. And because most states give big portions of how elections are run to their various countries, the voting experience can be very different in different parts of the the nation.
I assume that we can learn a lot from other places, but I'm not sure that everything that works for one country always scales to a population 5-10x larger.
I see this kind of thinking a lot. I call it "inverse American exceptionalism" - the idea that something tried-and-tested just couldn't work in America for some unknown mystical reason.
Mandatory resident registration (which enables automatic voter registration) is not something that has just been tested in a few small European countries. Aside from many European countries, it exists among other places in China, Iran and Japan. Not that it would be sufficient if it were true that it exists only in small European countries to conclude that it couldn't work in the US.
No, the reason you don't have automatic voter registration, or universal access to health care and education, or a minimum income guarantee, or any of the other basic staples of prosperous societies, has nothing to do with the US being large, or having a constitution, or having a federal structure. You don't have those things because your politicians, largely with support from your voters, deliberately choose not to implement those things.