re: #208 aagcobb

Then how many people would be disenfranchised because they lost their ID? If the purpose of this was really to combat voter fraud, it could be done an old-fashioned way, ink a finger of each voter with indelible ink so they can only vote once, or a high-tech way, take a digital photograph of each person as they vote. “Problem” solved, and no voters disenfranchised.

I could see that digital photos would be a non-starter, given the recent news that the FBI has super-duper facial recognition software. Even Google and Facebook have systems that are pretty darn scary. Voting is supposed to be anonymous, and naysayers could make a reasonable argument that the photos could be correlated to a given result.

Inking the fingers is better, cheaper and already used in many countries, such as India, IIRC.