TRUMPS AUTOMATIC Registration for Military Draft

@HikingMan only if Trump wants you too.. grin

@ElwoodBlues As a Canadian, I am not sure how Americans register to vote. In Canada, when you file your income tax return, there is the option to add yourself to the voters list.

@chrisCA Registration rules depend on the state. Rules for NY state are here:
https://elections.ny.gov/voter-registration-process

A federal standard called "Real ID" tightened the requirements for obtaining a driver's license in every state. It shows lawful presence in most states, citizenship in a few.

Republicans recently tried to pass a law called the "SAVE Act" with much much stiffer requirements to register to vote. In particular, Real ID isn't acceptable.

What's happening here is republicans are trying their hardest to keep people, especially the poor, from registering to vote.

@chrisCA Varies by state. In California, you go to the Registrar's office, provide ID (usually a driver's license is sufficient), and evidence of residence for local elections (usually utility bills sent to you with the address of residency). After that it becomes pretty much an online update on change of address, etc. Voting in person requires you to sign in next to your name in the Registrar's roll for that precinct. That's all that I recall; it has been decades since I voted in person. The mail-in option always has been available to the military, those absent for other reasons, the elderly and infirm. It was expanded to anyone who wanted it during the pandemic, along with adding the option of locked drop-by boxes at public offices such as courthouses and libraries. In those cases the envelope (not the ballot itself) must be signed (or signed and witnessed by someone else in the case of inability) for comparison tot he electoral rolls.

@markinkansas
In my experience most of the really ugly stuff wasn't the norm. We just did what we were trained to do and hope to make it to next day.

@MoveAlong it was a mess.. and the men like to tell stories of how they survived.. i see you was old enough to be there.. glad you made it home.. to you was it a war or a peace keeping mission ? i have heard both

@markinkansas


To me it was never anything but a war. Whether right or wring I believed the domino effect was a real thing. I felt at the time we were keeping all of Indochina from falling to the communists. With 20-20 hindsight I can see where it was foolish to think we could achieve those goals.

Like others have said I wouldn't take anything for the experience of what I went through. But I would never do it over again.

@MarkPaul it will effect both sides.. some just dont think ahead of the day they live in.

@swirlie reat show .. [media=https://youtu.be/3mJoHqmtFcQ]

@dancingtongue

the draft is mandatory enrollment / enrollment is enlistment - there was no difference when you turned 18 you signed up that was the law and if you didn't they would come at you one way or another. And the only way you had a possibility to get out of it was schooling, sickness, and at one point being flat-footed. Trump use bone spurs, then his daddy was rich.

@Charity I am quite clear on it, having lived through it. Student deferment, two years of active duty. And I believe flat-footedness is still a disqualifier. My son was given a medical discharge for flat footedness, but then that was back in the 70's.

@dancingtongue Also two years of mandatory ROTC which was required at land grant public universities at that time.

@jshm2 depends on which is cheaper to produce.. a man or machine..i dont think trump cares .. and a drone will not be on the ground . like he wants the world to see.. this could get bad fast.. good point tho