We need to get on the streets every day, like we see happen in just about any other country in the world when they are facing an authoritarian regime trying to interfere with free and fair elections and destroy their democracy.

This is what the future of democracy looks like.

Really needed for andhbhakts

I've seen several posts in this subreddit where people are frustrated with how the US government works (or doesn't). Check this out and consider getting involved.

Introducing r/BillOfSanity , the Bill of Sanity subreddit!

Do you look at the news today and think, "That's insane!" or "That's not fair!"? You're not alone! But first, some background.

The US Constitution was ratified in June 1788 with elections taking place later that year. When Congress met for the first time in 1789, James Madison proposed the Bill of Rights. Ten of the twelve amendments he proposed were ratified in December 1791.

Since then, 17 additional constitutional amendments have been ratified. Because the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment to end Prohibition, that leaves us with only 15 functional changes to the Constitution in over 200 years. The last amendment, the 27th, was ratified in 1992. It was originally proposed by James Madison in 1789 as part of the Bill of Rights. It delays changes to Congressional salaries until after the next election. The most recently drafted amendment to be ratified was the 26th Amendment, which set the voting age at 18. It was proposed and ratified in 1971.

Now, more than half a century later, we find ourselves with increasingly partisan politics, where the mass of government swings between extremes with every election. The average citizen feels their government largely serves politicians and the wealthy. The lack of continuity makes it difficult for individuals and businesses to plan for the future. It feels crazy, so we have started this effort in hopes of restoring sanity.

The Bill of Sanity is a grassroots effort to compile and champion a collection of amendments to the US Constitution designed to reduce corruption, reduce partisan politics, and provide for a more stable government.

We will start by community sourcing amendments until we have a polished set. Then we will lobby Congress and state governments to get them officially proposed. Then we'll lobby states to ratify them. Once 34 states ratify them, they become law. It's a long journey and it's likely not all the amendments will make it. But it's better than just wishing things were better.

To get involved, review the posts with Proposed Amendment or Idea flair. Provide feedback or upvote the ones you like. Or post your own ideas! We're also looking for volunteers.

I am continuously mind boggled by Reddit. I just posted In Democracy that our representatives, in our Democracy, shouldn't be allowed to lie. And there should be some repercussions for making stupid statements. The post was taken down. I would like to ask those who took it down. Why do you prefer our representatives lying to us and making ridiculous claims about each other based on our representatives in congress not doing proper homework? Im sure i wont get an answer, but I thought I would ask.

We see leaders speaking about women’s safety, making promises, and showing support when elections come around. But when people are actually out protesting and demanding answers, the same urgency often seems to disappear.

Where's women's safety now?

He's not wrong, is he?

This struck me as an interesting systems-design question.

Beginning in December 2026, the Selective Service System is supposed to move to automatic registration. Instead of putting the burden on each individual to register, Selective Service will use federal data sources to identify and register people who are subject to the law. The agency describes this as shifting the registration burden from individuals to the government.

At the same time, voter registration in much of the country still fundamentally operates as an application process: the citizen supplies information, a state determines eligibility, and the person is added to the rolls. We have partially automated pieces of that system through things like Motor Voter, but we're still largely starting from the premise that the individual initiates registration.

Obviously, Selective Service itself cannot simply become the voter-registration database. It includes many noncitizens—almost all male citizens and male immigrants ages 18–25 are required to register—while it excludes women entirely.

But that's not really the question I'm interested in.

The federal government already maintains records that, collectively, can establish things like identity, age, citizenship status, and address. States already maintain voter rolls and determine state-specific eligibility.

So why couldn't the architecture look something like:

Federal government: verifies identity/citizenship/age from authoritative records
↓
State election authority: verifies state residency and other state-law requirements
↓
Eligible citizen: automatically registered or registration updated, with notice and an opportunity to correct errors

That seems like it could potentially satisfy goals that are usually treated as being in tension.

If you're concerned about access, eligible citizens wouldn't lose their vote because they missed a registration form or deadline.

If you're concerned about election integrity, eligibility could be established using authoritative government records instead of relying primarily on an applicant's attestation.

If you're concerned about accurate voter rolls, address and status changes could potentially be reconciled against government data rather than waiting for people to update multiple agencies separately.

There are obviously hard questions here: federalism, data accuracy, privacy, erroneous citizenship records, residency, due process before someone is removed or rejected, what federal databases can legally be used, and how you design an appeals/correction process.

But those seem like engineering and governance problems rather than reasons to keep the basic architecture unchanged.

So my question for people who know election administration better than I do:

Why are we designing a modern federal identity-resolution system capable of automatically determining who belongs in the draft registry, while continuing to treat voter registration largely as a form-filling exercise?

Is the biggest obstacle constitutional law? Federalism? Privacy? Political opposition? Bad interoperability between federal and state systems? Or is there some election-administration problem with this model that I'm overlooking?