Why would the government know your voting history? Isn’t voting anonymous where you live?
No idea what a tax id is but in Sweden everyone’s home address, income, phone number, “personnummer” (a unique ID assigned to every citizen), and some other stuff. And for the most part it works pretty well. I’m usually concerned about privacy but I don’t mind this because it applies to everyone equally (except a few people with protected identity for safety reasons) and it’s just so open and convenient.
I’m not saying that all government documents should be public information but here most documents are.
God I hope the government records my voting history
As someone who votes over mail, it drives me crazy that I can’t login to some website and get confirmation that they have received the vote, and what they recorded the votes as.
People deserve to be able to confirm their votes. Its a requirement for a democracy.
Here it’s only possible to mail vote from abroad and I have never done it but it doesn’t appear that you get a confirmation here either.
If we are talking about registers of who voted and not for whom. Why does it matter? Who voted isn’t secret at all. So why even bring that up? For the record I voted in the most recent EU and national elections.
That’s a shame. Well at least it is not as important since you don’t actually live there. Not saying it’s not important, it’s not just quite as important as someone actually living there.
Why would the government know your voting history? Isn’t voting anonymous where you live?
No idea what a tax id is but in Sweden everyone’s home address, income, phone number, “personnummer” (a unique ID assigned to every citizen), and some other stuff. And for the most part it works pretty well. I’m usually concerned about privacy but I don’t mind this because it applies to everyone equally (except a few people with protected identity for safety reasons) and it’s just so open and convenient.
I’m not saying that all government documents should be public information but here most documents are.
God I hope the government records my voting history
As someone who votes over mail, it drives me crazy that I can’t login to some website and get confirmation that they have received the vote, and what they recorded the votes as.
People deserve to be able to confirm their votes. Its a requirement for a democracy.
Vote in person then 🤷
Here it’s only possible to mail vote from abroad and I have never done it but it doesn’t appear that you get a confirmation here either.
If we are talking about registers of who voted and not for whom. Why does it matter? Who voted isn’t secret at all. So why even bring that up? For the record I voted in the most recent EU and national elections.
Cant vote in person. I live abroad
Can’t you vote at an embassy or consulate?
Nope. Believe me I tried.
That’s a shame. Well at least it is not as important since you don’t actually live there. Not saying it’s not important, it’s not just quite as important as someone actually living there.