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Re:Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one... by nickodell on Monday December 05, 2016 @05:26PM (#13110354)
You can have a discussion about how to implement voter ID without deciding whether it's a good idea overall, or whether it violates the VRA.

In fact, most voting machines don't check ID at all; they leave that to the humans. (If they did check ID, the machines could secretly match votes to names.)

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Re:Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one... by bduerst on Monday December 05, 2016 @05:38PM (#13110460)
Whether or not they have it now is irrelevant (it's an example) - any proposed technology would inevitably see this requirement, and others, being identified based on opinion, not fact.
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