re: #10 Sergey Romanov

I think it doesn’t matter if it’s difficult or not. It still leaves place for fraud - even if on a small scale - where somebody who knows you can vote for you just to spite (etc.). Smallness of the scale does not matter. The system should not be based on trust in principle, it tramples the one person-one vote rule. The solution is not to get rid of ID checking, the solution is to have IDs easily available and for free for anybody eligible.

If you make it extremely easy to get ID, you make it extremely easy to commit that same small scale fraud to get that ID. And that is far worse for the citizen than voting in their name out of spite (which, again, doesn’t happen on any significant scale.) would be. If you make that ID difficult to obtain, then it’s an effective poll tax.

I will agree with one thing though. If the system has been going on like that for many decades, it’s not fair to simply “break” it and suddenly start to require IDs where none were necessary previously. The point is to reform the system step by step. First make IDs freely and easily available. Then inform the population. Then start requiring IDs.

Sure. But then are you going to roll back the ability to use absentee ballots, too? They’re something millions of Americans who are too busy, travelling during voting season, homebound, or otherwise unable to get to the polls, use.