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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I feel like this has been posted 10+ times in the last 4 months. Why do so many people believe otherwise?
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Originally Posted by calculoso
It's likely because having government ID is the most pain free and fastest way to vote, and likely the only experience that people have in their own personal lives.
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I have worked elections before, including the most recent one. I'll tell you guy the reality, regardless of what the regulations say. There's only a few ways it goes:
If you have ID and are on the list, go ahead and vote.
If you have ID and are NOT on the list, go ahead and vote.
If you do NOT have ID and are on the list, show your two pieces of paper and vote.
If you do NOT have ID and and are NOT on the list, show your two pieces of paper and vote.
In any case where you don't have ID, nor the two papers, nor anyone to attest your oath then you do not vote. In my experience, we had 1 or 2 of these per polling place for the entire electoral district. They were astounded that you can't just show up, claim to be someone who lives at xyz place, and vote.
The majority of people do show up with ID, and those who don't have ID for some reason usually bring their papers or someone to attest them.
I guess my ignorance in this issue was that I just assumed the USA would have the same, or almost exactly similar rules. If not, which has been shown by numerous links/discussion (thanks btw... I didn't know all that stuff), then why not? Yes, it must be rigged against some as it stands now. Which is too bad, because that's not really the spirit of the system.
So my original point about needing to show ID I think is still fair, with a new caveat that obviously alternative ID/paper should also be permitted - I didn't know I'd be taken literally at my word about ID- but
being able to prove who you are (in a way acceptable to the voting authority, which should be an independent "government" body) and that you have the legal right to vote in this district SHOULD be a mandatory part of voting.