So currently, the draft system is not legally provisioned for in the US. It would require a law to be passed to reinstate a draft.

Right now there is just a list system for if that were to happen. This change is just making it so people are automatically put in to that list system, as supposed to having to manually do it them selves, arguably a good thing since it was already mandatory. Not registering for the selective service is a federal crime, and a lot of people have failed to register because they don’t know or simply forgot to.

It would probably be better to remove the selective service system all together, make it harder to reinstate a draft in the future. But if it is going to stick around and continue to be mandatory, it’s better it be an automatic system.

In general, there are basically no federal level “lists of all citizens”. The closest would be social security (national pension fund and elderly health insurance system) but even that doesn’t really work for identifying people or tracking them. it’s something people in the US have been very paranoid about for a long time.

Can’t wait for Schleswig-Holstein and France to fight distro proxy wars.