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You don't need ID to register to vote in Virginia. You just need to fill out a form.

You do need ID to actually vote, though. So bring it to the poll regardless.

you must provide your Social Security number

I'm not sure what you mean by this. An SSN is not proof of citizenship, for example if you have a green card then you are eligible for Social Security but not eligible to vote.

But wasn't citizenship checked when registering?

To register in Virginia, you only need to fill out a form.

There is a box on the form to affirm your citizenship, but you do not need to present any documents that could be used to check your status.

Fun fact: 90% of the cells in your body are bacteria.

According to https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/which-states-offer-same-day-voter-registration-and-why-does-it-matter/

Washington, D.C. and most of the states with same-day registration — California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming — make the process easy and accessible. However, a handful present obstacles.

Some states, including Michigan and Montana, don’t allow for same-day registration at polling places, only at other locations like city clerks’ offices or county election offices.

North Carolina only permits same-day registration during the early voting period, and New York is even more restrictive — only allowing it during the first day of early voting on Oct. 26.

New Hampshire has the opposite restriction — only offering Election Day registration.

A ridiculous ruling, but fortunately Virginia has same-day registration. So if you show up to vote and find you've been purged, you can immediately re-register.

No, but WaPo is not literally paying a tithe or tax.

Unless the former subscribers were executed, that's not the literal definition of decimate.

They want to, but Bezos (who is not a journalist) is preventing them. That's the problem.

There is literally an entire section called "Opinion", where various columnists give their interpretation of the latest news.

And if they are giving opinions, they should give an opinion about who should be president.

Countries have complicated trade for centuries. Free trade is a modern exception, not the historical rule.

And in principle, countries have as much right to restrict trade with Cuba as they do with Russia and Israel. It's the same principle that allows people to call for boycotts of Amazon and Starbucks. All of these things can affect the lives of millions, in an effort to bring about political change.

Doubtful. For the same reason that Trump criticizing / threatening judges isn't grounds for recusal or mistrial.

People born in American Samoa generally consider themselves citizens of American Samoa. Even though they have US passports, they can vote for their own government and write their own laws. Including laws that might be overturned by American courts if American Samoans were fully US citizens.

For example, there are restrictions on buying land in American Samoa if you are not a "blood" descendant of American Samoans.

It is prohibited to alienate any lands except freehold lands to any person who has less than one-half native blood...

If a person who has any nonnative blood marries another person who has any nonnative blood, the children of such marriage cannot inherit land unless they are of at least one-half native blood.

In other words, Mark Zuckerburg cannot swoop into American Samoa and buy half of an island.

That's why it's not so surprising that the government of American Samoans, as well as a majority of its citizens, is opposed to becoming US citizens. They have seen what happened to native Hawaiians, and they don't want the same.

Ok, technically they are US nationals but not US citizens. They still have US passports, but their passports are slightly different.

International law defines a "stateless" person as neither a national nor a citizen of any country. So the UN Conventions on Statelessness do not apply to American Samoans. Likewise the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration on Human Rights provide guarantees of "nationality", not citizenship.

Which islanders are you referring to?

People born in Guam, the US Virgin Islands, and American Samoa all have American citizenship (just like Puerto Ricans).

A good newspaper has an independent editors.

WaPo editors wanted to endorse Harris.

Bezos, who is not an editor, forced them to remain neutral.

That's a problem. People don't subscribe to WaPo because they want to read Bezos's thoughts.

Because Jill Stein is also a multimillionaire.

But I thought you liked conspiracy theories. You just posted one about paying a billion dollars for every thousand Palestinians killed.