Claiming to be a citizen, or claiming to be someone you’re not, is voter fraud, and can lead to a decade or more in prison. As it happens, essentially no one i

Claiming to be a citizen, or claiming to be someone you’re not, is voter fraud, and can lead to a decade or more in prison. As it happens, essentially no one in the US commits voter fraud of this sort (the go in, vote as someone you’re not, kind. Ballot stuffing may or may not be a thing, or rigging of digital elections may be a thing). The US also makes voting day be on a normal work days, it’s not a holiday or weekend, and people don’t get time off work to vote. There are often very long waiting lines to vote. So telling people they need an ID to vote leads to people actually being disenfranchised, in the US, if they just forgot their ID. And again, actual voter fraud is so rare that it’s national news when someone is convicted of it (and people go looking for it often).