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How the US manages to pretend to be a modern country without the bare basics of public administration like a civil registry is beyond me.
If “registering to vote” was a thing anywhere else we’d all be decrying it as a major democratic deficit, if not outright disenfranchisement.
Ours is a culture of complacency. Even where demonstrably untrue, we for generations regard ourselves as number one in all aspects of nationhood. The propaganda works as designed. We don't expect more because we already think this is as good as it gets.
This allows the slow erosion of rights and denial of progress that we've seen over the last 50 years. We won't be protesting or demanding things most democracies would consider mandatory. We're too busy trying to get by at this point.
All the better for the oligarchs to manage the peons. Helps if they are "poorly educated" too - wouldn't want any critical thinking to pop up.
It's intentional