• dave881@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    I don’t doubt that it works well in many places.

    It would probably work well in many places in the US.

    I was just thinking about places like Washing state that don’t have a state income tax, so combining taxation and voter registration would not be as straight forward as other places.

    For better or worse the US constitution gives authority over most elections issues to the states, which means that we don’t have one national voting system. And because most states give big portions of how elections are run to their various countries, the voting experience can be very different in different parts of the the nation.

    I assume that we can learn a lot from other places, but I’m not sure that everything that works for one country always scales to a population 5-10x larger.