{"id":68577,"date":"2018-11-19T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68577"},"modified":"2018-11-18T20:47:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T02:47:41","slug":"68577","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68577","title":{"rendered":"A Guy Can Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arthur Chrenkoff on election reform, Australian style<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tired of non-citizens enrolling (and voting Democrat (allegedly))? Or counties where more people end up enrolled (and voting) than are actually eligible to vote? Easy \u2013 to enrol to vote in Australia you need to present a driver\u2019s licence or a passport or have someone who is already enrolled confirm your identity. This last option potentially opens the door to mischief, since you could make a chain of fraudulent enrolments based on the first, genuine link, but even with that proviso, the Australian system seems to me a lot tighter than the American seemingly free-for-all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It could hardly be worse.<\/p>\n

Before an election, every person on the electoral roll is mailed a little card by the electoral commission with the voter\u2019s details and a unique barcode. To be able to receive a ballot at the polling station you need to either present the card to be scanned or if you have forgotten to bring it with you you need to show a valid ID for your name to be marked on the voters\u2019 list. Failing either, you can query your absence on the electoral roll and lodge a provisional vote, whose validity will be carefully assessed as part of the overall count, but it is a relatively rare occurrence. To an Australian, an argument that requiring an ID to vote is tantamount to \u201cvoter suppression\u201d seems pretty ridiculous. Virtually everyone has got some sort of an ID; the tiny remainder can be accommodated separately.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems to make sense.<\/p>\n

The DFL will fight it to the death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arthur Chrenkoff on election reform, Australian style. Tired of non-citizens enrolling (and voting Democrat (allegedly))? Or counties where more people end up enrolled (and voting) than are actually eligible to vote? Easy \u2013 to enrol to vote in Australia you need to present a driver\u2019s licence or a passport or have someone who is already […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-integrity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68593,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68577\/revisions\/68593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}