Name: We've Got Some Weird Voting Laws...
Uploaded: 2020-03-30T05:47:15.000Z
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Good morning, John, as it is getting closer to election time here in the U.

Expect to hear more about campaigns and candidates and finances and issues and voting, of course.

And I want to talk about that last thing today.

Here in the US we are, of course, 50 different United States.

Plus, um, confusing things is not just some symbolic thing.

Most government happens at the state and local levels, and that includes election laws.

Here there are some weaknesses to that system.

It increases the chances that some things might get done poorly or even in bad faith to intentionally manipulate outcome.

And it makes it impossible to make one video saying how to get registered and vote in every state.

Which is why some friends and I made dozens of videos about that so that you can look at your state and figure out exactly how it works where you are.

But there is also a strength to this system and allows us to try 50 different systems and 50 different states.

And when one of those systems works well, other states can adopt those systems.

When one state tries something out doesn't work.

And while going through in making our YouTube Siri's how to vote in every state, I did discover some strangeness is so.

Here are some of the weirdest election laws in the U.

One in the state of Vermont, which historical preservation society has declared in its entirety on endangered place, there is a suitably quaint law.

You must be administered of voters oath in order to register to vote.

It used to be that you had to have a notary listen to you, say the oh, now you can administer yourself the oath.

You still have to do it, but you couldn't do it alone quietly, just whisper, whisper the oath to yourself and then sign the little for it makes me suspect that a number of people don't actually self administer the oath.

But to all of the people who do just want to say, I love you, that's great.

In three of the United States, there are no polling places anymore.

Everybody votes by mail, which decreases the cost of elections and increases the number of people who participate in elections.

Interestingly and maybe coincidentally, all three of those States have legalized marijuana.

Some people maybe don't want to go out for three in North Dakota, you don't have to register to vote.

If you live in North Dakota, you just vote.

One assumes that this is because there's only a few dozen North Dakotans number four in Nevada.

So instead of going to ah, polling place on polling day, if you happen to be like at Hot Topic might wander out and find, ah, pop up early voting location right there in the mall.

And it's one of the reasons why over 60% of Nevada's vote early number five online voting registration has exploded recently.

Now more than half of states allow you to register to vote on the Internet as long as you have a driver's license, usually in 2015.

No states automatically registered you to vote when you've got a driver's license or updated your driver's license.

Now, just three years later, 13 different states automatically register you to vote, because why not?

There's some people who think that if you don't register, you don't get jury duty, and that's not true, Vitaly number six.

There is one place where you can register online, you don't get automatically registered, and you don't even get to register by mail.

In New Hampshire, you have to take your physical body to your town clerk's office to register in person.

Thank you, New Hampshire, for reminding us how bad it used to be for everyone.

Note that over the years it has gotten easier to register to vote and to vote.

People are trying to push that back, and they have succeeded some.

Having the right to vote and having the ability to vote in the elections that matter most to our local communities and also to the world is a wonderful thing to be able to do.

And if you want to learn more about how to best get it done in your place, you got a youtube dot com slash how to vote in every state.

 It's time to get it together in this exceptional, if peculiar country of ours. 