If anything like this were to be tried in America, we’d find a way to turn it into a clusterfuck. Look at the fiasco of the recent Iowa caucuses. And it couldn’t be done all at once nationally. Constitutionallly, each state sets its own voting procedures. And there would be fierce opposition to anything that could make voting easier. Restricting voting rather than expanding it is quite popular in some circles. There have been all kinds of attempts to make voting harder rather than easier (often couched in terms of making voting more secure) but sometimes Republicans will openly admit that they don’t want to expand or improve access to voting.
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Yep - the land of the free to fuck over the masses.
There is resistance in Finland too, but it is because most people don't think about how it is actually achieved. Essentially here - 100% of people have to use online banking for verification for stuff, including tax matters. The technological hurdle for "old people" is increasingly irrelevant as those "old people" grew up with computers in the workplace.
I don't follow US politics that much, nor the procedures - but it is a shambles - same as the healthcare and social service systems from what I understand. Reform is needed, but those in power will never support it - it has to come from the people themselves - but they are too busy arguing over nonsense in a polarized manner to see that the arguments are seeded.