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As a public service I will make a fast post that it is completely state controlled. Not federal level. Where I live we dump all state drivers license and stat
by VLM 12y ago
As a public service I will make a fast post that it is completely state controlled. Not federal level.
Where I live we dump all state drivers license and state ID card records into a pool and thats about 99% of the population right there. Volunteer octogenarians at the public elementary school your kids would attend, ask you your address and then name and then tag you in the records as having voted, then hand out "scantron" ballots and pencils which are optically scanned and reported to central control hourly or so and the ballots are later spot checked. Every task takes at least two octogenarians, we have a one party system in the USA with two competing P.R. firms and each firm provides one overseer for each job.
Never in my life have I had to provide ID to vote. There is a policy no one really knows to handle people who recently move or refuse to obtain a free ID card or a relatively cheap drivers license.
Note that we give out "free" state ID cards upon demand, but obtaining the prerequisite certified birth certificate is no picnic and costs something like $95, if you don't already have one. Identity theft is quite trivial but the punishment is somewhat severe once you're caught.