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So I was reading through my "election card"* today and I realized that I don't need an ID if the person taking my vote knows me, nor do I need a state issued ID to vote, I just need a picture ID with my name and birthdate.

*They mail us this pamphlet with all the information you need, which election spot they prefer you to go to (as long as you are in the correct county you can vote everywhere) and with information on how to vote, and also how to vote early. It also has some information about the person voting (name, birth year, city number and the number I am in my place of residence). It goes faster if you bring this thing, but as long as you have a photo ID, you are good to vote.

Anyway on to the question, what information and stuff do you need to vote? In the US you have to apply or something?

In the U.S. you have to register to vote, which among other things involves showing you live in the place in which you're trying to register. You can be vouched for or show a utility bill with your name on it... I'm sure there are other ways.

My state just had an ugly fight about a Voter ID amendment that would have required state-issued photo ID with your current address on it to vote, which would have been tough on all the people without driver's licenses. Voter ID is a heavily partisan issue.

It all varies state to state, but you have to register to vote and most places require ID when you go to vote.

It's actually become shitty where some states have been enacting strict voter-ID laws that 'coincidentally' make it impossible for a lot of minorities and senior citizens to be able to vote.

You have to register to vote and if you're male you register for the draft at the same time, which means you have to do it within 60 days after you turn 18. I was a terrible citizen and didn't register to vote until I turned 21 because I turned 18 while in college and the major elections didn't affect me until I was 21.

I went to university in a different state, so I applied for an absentee ballot in order to vote. Now that I'm back home, I just walk to the local first aid squad and vote. I honestly don't remember if they ask for my ID, sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. I vote in a little booth and then walk home. They make you sign in though.

To vote in my country, you need an elector's card (free, sent to you by mail automatically) and an ID (also free - they all have pictures). You have to vote in one specific place, since that's where you're registered as a voter and where they have your name on a list they can cross out once you're done. They send you the pamphlets of every candidate with envelopes and ballots, but you can just use the ballots you find where you go vote (usually a school or a town hall). You can also vote by allowing someone you trust to vote for you, if you can't vote on D-Day.

You don't need an ID if your village is inhabited by less than 1000 people.

Good luck about your elections, I've heard rather worrying things about who could enter Norway's government...

I've only ever needed some kind of photo ID (and if I'm not voting in my state, an ID with my address on it)

Today I used my security license. In the past I've used a drivers license and passport.

In Australia everyone over the age of 18 must be registered to vote because voting is compulsory. I remember in my last year of high school every couple of months teachers would track down the students who had turned 18 and help them with the voting registration form.

Also, when it does come time to vote in an election, most voting poles are set up in public schools and there is usually somebody selling sausage sandwhichs near the school exit.

THE SAUSAGE SIZZLE IS INTEGRAL TO THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS IN AUSTRALIA!!!11
(Why yes, I am the sausage sizzle stan from the election thread, however could you tell?)

Also, I'm pretty sure you're supposed to have photo ID with you as well, not that I was asked at my polling place.

I wasn't asked for ID either, they just asked for my address to double check.
=(

Just to add - it's TECHNICALLY not actually voting that's compulsory, you just have to go have your name marked out. You can actually do anything you want to the paper afterwards, including drawing pictures, making paper aeroplanes, or, as I did in one REALLY REALLY DULL local election where every candidate just had different variations of the phrases, "Fund schools!" and "Stop apartment buildings!", do a write-in vote for '[x] SAXON, Harold'.

In the US, most people register to vote when they get/renew their driver's license. You can also do it at any social security office, WIC office - any state services office, or by mail.

Haha! I voted in advance earlier this week in the community service office of a tiny little village here in Norway. I asked them if they needed my ID and they just gave me the stink-eye and pointed me towards the booth. Perhaps because I used to work in that very office not long ago. :D

In Germany they send you a card which you have to bring along as well as official ID (driver's license usually isn't enough, but if you're living in a small town like me they'll probably let you through with it too). There's no applying or getting registered; city hall sends the cards automatically to every citizen over 18 who's registered as living in its district.

We can't choose where to vote but are assigned places depending on where we live. Large cities obviously have more than one place, but in my town we all have to go to the gym of the local elementary school and are only seperated into hall A or hall B. If you're not there on the day of the election you can choose to vote by mail, in which case you'd go to city hall with the card they send you and they give you the election stuff to take home with you and fill out there (you send it back to city hall, if I'm not mistaken).

I won't be in Germany when we vote later this month, so I had them send me the ballot, filled it out and sent it back. I didn't even have to leave the house except to put the filled out ballot into the mail box. But you can also vote right at the town hall.

In the UK you register to vote. When we have an election we get poll cards(I think this is similar to the pamphlet you get since it has about the same amount of personal information) sent to us in the mail and we take them with us to the polling station, hand it in to one of the volunteers at the entrance and they take it and give us a ballot to fill in. I think we can also turn up to a polling station without the card and tell them our name and address and be given a ballot since everyone who can vote is on the electoral register.

I'm in the US and I vote by mail which means they mail me a ballot and I just fill it out and then mail it in or just walk it down to the polling station and drop it off.

I don't actually know what I'd need if I went to vote in person, to be perfectly honest.

In Mexico, you first need to register with the IFE (Instituto Federal Electoral, Federal Electoral Institute?) a certain time of the year if you're eighteen years old or older. They write you down on their official lists with all your data (name, age, address, etc.), take your thumb print, your signature and a picture of your face, and if it all goes fast a little while later they give you a plastic ID card thing, the size of a credit card, with your info, signature, thumb print and photo in it (which also serves as an official, legal ID).

Then when it's time to vote, depending on where you live (you must let the IFE know if you move to live somewhere else to let them update your address in their lists), there will be a house/school local to you with the electoral booths (for privacy) and voting boxes/urns and randomly assigned citizens waiting at tables with the voting papers, boxes, lists, etc. (and also supervisors of each political party hanging around to make sure there isn't cheating or stealing of boxes with votes, which has actually happened in some places) who will check your plastic ID card thing, check it against their copies of the IFE lists to see that you're really you, and then give you the paper (or papers, if there are several levels of elections going on, like President + Governors + Deputies + Mayors) with the list of candidates and their political parties to vote on.

You go to a booth, mark your vote with a crayon or pencil thing provided inside the booth, fold the paper as its marked so no one sees what you voted when you exit, exit the booth and deposit the folded paper into the proper box/urn. Then the random citizens overseeing the process will paint your right thumb with some really, really hard to wash off ink so that you don't try to vote twice somehow with a fake ID or some other form of cheating, and then make a dent with a puncturing machine on your IFE card thing in the appropriate year slot to show that you've already voted with it. It usually has spaces for about 4 times of presidential, governor and mayor elections (every six years all of them, I think?) and then a bunch more for the deputy elections (every three years), and even some spaces for emergency elections if those come up for some reason.

Oh, also, presidents cannot serve ever again after their period is over. The last president who was reelected held on to the post for 30+ years, so a huge civil war ensued and reelections were forbidden from then on.

The randomly chosen citizens are trained weeks before the elections on what to do. On the election day, they tend to open up elections in the morning, like 8-9 am-ish? And the voting closes in the afternoon. The votes are counted in the evening, all through the night (both by hand and by computer) and I think we find out the winner by the next day at night or the day after the next? I forget.

Not all states have their local elections the same day, for some reason, but they all last the length of time in their respective levels.

There are tons of TV and radio ads every now and then to encourage everyone to keep their IFE card thing up to date.

nor do I need a state issued ID to vote, I just need a picture ID with my name and birthdate.

In Ontario there's an awesome list that tells you all the things you can use for ID (if you're on the voter's list, and even if you're not, ie it's your first time voting/you've moved etc).

And yet still, every time there's an election there are people who argue about showing ID (and having worked elections before, we keep that list with us so we can check and make sure what they're showing us for ID is an acceptable form).

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