re: #168 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

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…

Well, the border wall Trump proposes isn’t really about voting. It’s about Mexicans allegedly taking jobs in fruit orchards or farm work that Americans would be lining up around the block for. Or racism, take your pick.

My own village had eliminated its polling station before we moved here, so we’ve always used mail voting.

As for a national ID card, that has been suggested before with Evangelicals, sovereign citizen types, and some others flipping their lids (“mark of the beast,” privacy issues, &c.)

Allegedly in states that are implementing voter ID laws, a driver’s license will do. On the other hand, states like Alabama then eliminate the driver’s license offices in places they don’t want people to vote (read minorities).