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Re:Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (and Nag You) by elyobo on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @03:40AM (#18389330)
> the common suggestion that IDing people be stripped altogether just sounds bizarre to me

Works for us in NZ. I can imagine that it wouldn't in the US though; I imagine both Dems and Repubs would immediately start bulk scale cheating, justifying it on the basis that the others would be doing it...

So yeah, making it very easy to obtain and ID seems like a sound compromise.

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Re:Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (and Nag You) by mikeash on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @08:54AM (#18390935)
A lot of the US already allows voting without ID, and it used to be that way everywhere. There is essentially no cheating that ID requirements would prevent. The numbers are literally single digits per year. (Absolute numbers of fraudulent votes, not percentages.)
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