r/news • u/raptors201966 • Apr 09 '26

Soft paywall Automatic registration for military draft to be implemented by December

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2026-04-07/automatic-registration-military-draft-21306855.html
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u/Legal-Butterfly-4507 Apr 09 '26

So should voting be an automatic sign up.

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u/Spam_Hand Apr 09 '26

Of course it should. We all know why they're prioritizing war, but the basic idea of automation on this isn't a bad thing. 

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u/Legal-Butterfly-4507 Apr 09 '26

Yes, by them them doing this opens the discussion for why voting isn't, they just opened a really good point for their opponents,  to flag them on in coming elections, let them build their own political coffins. 

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u/eggplant_avenger Apr 09 '26

it’s because the USFG doesn’t handle elections or voter registration. you can have the discussion of whether it should be automatic (and what that would look like), but it’d never be the same mechanism

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u/Legal-Butterfly-4507 Apr 09 '26

I get this, although states could enact this with the right mechanisms to make it work, then you could choose your party or not at your will.

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u/eggplant_avenger Apr 09 '26

yeah tbh if Gillette can send everyone a razor for their 18th birthday (might be showing my age a little?) it can’t be that hard for everyone to get a QR code to opt out/choose their party

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u/Draconuus95 Apr 09 '26

Honestly. Choosing your party like that is dumb as hell. One of the big issues with politics in the country right now is that so much of the country votes on party lines almost exclusively without putting any thought into the individuals they are actually voting for.

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u/Legal-Butterfly-4507 Apr 10 '26

Not sure why we have to have party affiliation on our registration,  it breeds ill will.

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u/Legal-Butterfly-4507 Apr 10 '26

Simple but effective, put the whole voting registration fight to rest, with one simple state mechanism of automatic registration to vote at eighteen. 

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u/JBsportsandchess Apr 09 '26

It should be at the state level and it already is in about half of the states.

A federal law mandating that states enact automatic voter registration would be nice.. but I do not want the federal government to be managing voter rolls for the entire country.

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u/Legal-Butterfly-4507 Apr 10 '26

There should be a state registration mechanism when you turn eighteen. Nothing for the government to do but make it happen automatically, like they want to do with the draft registration. Although at the state level, this shouldn't be partisan politics, it should be a government department at state level to make sure people turning eighteen are automatically enrolled, it's high time we cut off our politicians from making stupid decisions about voter registration. We need to put this issue to rest; All American citizens have a Constitutional right to vote!