re: #167 Anymouse 🌹

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The first county in Nebraska has completely transitioned to all-mail voting, eliminating polling stations. Garden County (about fifteen miles east of me) implemented a pilot programme in the next town east (Lisco, population 64) to see how it would work.

Garden County (population 2,000) has now eliminated all polling stations for today’s primary election.

Mail voting was implemented by Nebraska some time ago, but polling stations were not entirely eliminated. It was intended for primarily rural counties like Garden and my own. (My county still uses polling stations in the two largest towns.)

It also works well in urban centers where people are too busy working on a weekday to take time to get to polls and wait in line while election officers meticulously check voter ID and cause delays.

(a feature, not a bug)

Germany votes on a Sunday. And since everyone already has a registered address (which means you are automatically registered to vote) and a mandatory ID, there is no question of voter fraud, you show up, present your ID and they cross your name off the list.

I know that I am a voice in the wilderness, but introducing a mandatory national ID (one for citizens and one for legal resident aliens) would go a long way to solving a lot of issues and be cheaper and more effective than building and maintaining a border fence…