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Originally Posted by Ragnar
Exactly my thoughts. I'm baffled as to why you don't need one to vote in the first place.
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Philosophically Because we are not legally required to have ID and the right to vote in a democracy is absolute, practically because the level of voter fraud is so utterly minimal, maybe 20 or 30 cases an election where someone votes for their bedridden mother or the like, in every case of known voter fraud it has proved to be individuals voting by mistake or maybe even knowingly but there has never been an organised attempt to rig an election this way, the reason is simple, the only party that could get away with it would have to be in power in the first place and so they dont need to do it, they will resort to open vote rigging not ballot fraud.