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In reply to the discussion: 27 Percent of New York’s Registered Voters Won’t Be Able to Vote in the State’s Primary [View all]stopbush
(24,396 posts)to learn the voting laws in their state. We know that the laws for getting a driver's license, opening a business or adding a room on your house differ from state to state. Start a renovation project on your property without first getting the required permits and you're asking for trouble.
States come up with their election laws to ensure that there's a standardized set of rules for everyone to follow to be able to vote, to insure the widest swath of people get to vote, and to keep election tampering at a minimum. To complain that you didn't know that you needed to change your Party affiliation last October to vote in the NY Democratic primary is equivalent to feeling disenfranchised because you weren't allowed to vote because you were only 16. There's no more reason to assume you can't vote at age 16 than there is to believe you didn't have to change your registration by a date certain. The law is there in both instances. All you need do is look it up.