yes, exactly. but, to get on the lists, you have to "register to vote" at some point. i think they do it this way because americans move around a lot, and voting is not required by law. this also brings up another issue which is that sometimes a good percentage of the lists are people who used to live in some district, but now no longer do. a bad actor could use that information in certain no-id districts to cast a vote in the name of a person who will never know about it, because he no longer lives there and will be voting elsewhere, etc. and so you sometimes hear about lawsuits where the result is that some district is ordered by the courts to clean up their lists of registered voters. it's all pretty complicated, i guess, but no older person remembers these things ever being a real problem until the past few elections. as for me, i will not be voting, as i believe it doesn't matter, and that all of our national politics is basically fake, like professional wrestling.
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