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Michigan Representative Peter Lucido has introduced a Bill to streamline driver license and voter registration by making it electronic. Great.
The matter has been referred to the House Elections Committee. Fabulous.
Now, someone, anyone, tell me there are not inherent issues when addressing voting rights?
Look at it like this. I can obtain official State of Michigan identification in the form of a driver's license which has me, for legal purposes, as a resident of a municipality, yet I can, in the same breath, register to vote in a different city?
Ok, I know some have listed a different address as permanent residences on driver's license in order to secure cheaper auto insurance as Detroit and its enclaves are still under pervasive redlining schemes of the auto insurance industries, stemming back before the civil rights era.
When this was done this, voting behavior drastically changed as an individual was obliged, neigh, restricted, to vote in the jurisdiction of record with the State of Michigan in accordance to the address on the state identification of choice, the driver's license.
This also led to population shifts in the calculations of redistricting.
What we have here, now, is a Bill which would allow an individual to list a legal residence for the purposes of state identification via the driver's license while, contemporaneously, granting an individual to register with the state, an absolutely distinct, secondary address for purposes of voting.
Of course, I shall be gracious and provide for the benefit of debate that college students were meant to be included in this discussion as many may live on campus for a few semesters a year yet maintain a permanent legal address at the home of their family, but I am going to say that this represents a relatively small population in relation to the rest of the state and may be resolved in other fashions.
And just to season up the debate, I am going to toss in a dash of partisan politics by speculating that this dual registration initiative is a foreboding tale of a preemptive strike to preserve the possible the demise Republican leadership for the next opportunity of electronic gerrymandering, oops, I mean, redistricting.
If by chance Democrats come into power for the 2022, as forecasted by many, the Republican plan of obviation must already be in the file cabinet, ready to go, and here it is: electronic gerrymandering.
Dare I not utter the term of voter fraud, which is what I believe this Bill to be.
All the Michigan Secretary of State has to do is coordinate intra agency and with the Department of Health and Human Services, electronically, inclusive of a layer of encryption technology, state identification, voter registration, or EBT card. It can be as simple a cute little box on the state issued identification, whether it be a driver's license, a BRIDGE card, or just a regular ID, the same as the organ donor box.
But then again, information technology and departmental services do not go together well in Michigan.
House Bill 5539: Create electronic drivers license
Introduced by Rep. Peter Lucido (R) on April 12, 2016, to require the Secretary of State to create an electronic drivers license option for smart phones and other electronic devices.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/
Introduced by Rep. Peter Lucido (R) on April 12, 2016, to require the Secretary of State to create an electronic drivers license option for smart phones and other electronic devices.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/
House Bill 5540: Allow different drivers license and voter registration addresses
Introduced by Rep. Peter Lucido (R) on April 12, 2016, to allow a person to have a different address on their drivers license than the one at which they are registered to vote.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/
Introduced by Rep. Peter Lucido (R) on April 12, 2016, to allow a person to have a different address on their drivers license than the one at which they are registered to vote.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/
House Bill 5541: Allow different drivers license and voter registration addresses
Introduced by Rep. Peter Lucido (R) on April 12, 2016, to allow a person to have a different address on their drivers license than the one at which they are registered to vote.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/
Introduced by Rep. Peter Lucido (R) on April 12, 2016, to allow a person to have a different address on their drivers license than the one at which they are registered to vote.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/
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