re: #217 KGxvi

According to wikipedia, a lot of those countries have ID as a secondary thing. And in many cases, the “ID” includes things that don’t have a photo.

New Zealand has no national ID. A driver’s licence, passport, or Kiwi Access card is the de facto photo identification. The last of these is primarily to provide proof of legal drinking age where you don’t posses the other two forms of identification.

The standard “voter ID” used for our elections is a small card, printed on heavy paper, mailed out to every voter on the rolls by the Electoral Commission. You take it with you to the polls, the poll worker takes it off you, crosses out your name in a copy of the roll for your electorate, and hands you your voting papers.

Postal and early voting are no more onerous.