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I'm not sure if you've ever voted, but States without ID requirements (about 15 of them total) don't just let you walk in and cast a ballot anonymously. If you
by hypeatei 1y ago
I'm not sure if you've ever voted, but States without ID requirements (about 15 of them total) don't just let you walk in and cast a ballot anonymously. If you were trying to commit fraud, you'd need to know a combination of things about the person you're pretending to be and sign the poll book or an affidavit[0]. Now try scaling that process up enough to change the outcome... you can't.
Your assumptions about lack of ID = easy fraud is misguided.
> Every other country can do it, why not the US?
Elections are handled by the States themselves and so trying to tackle this on a federal level through the executive or Congress probably wouldn't go over very well considering it'd go against the constitution[1] (although that doesn't seem to be that big of a problem these days)
0: https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/voter-verification-without-id-documents https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/voter-verificat...
1: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S4-C1-2/ALDE_00013577/ https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S4-C1-2/...