Well, that's good news I guess. But this whole picture id verification for voting is very interesting to me. How people were voting before? I mean how you go and ask for ballot where you are registered and prove your identity if not with a picture ID?
Out here, our birth certificate must bear a photo and has a dedicated page for election stamps, that's how we vote once per person. And then we don't have voting registration process and can vote almost anywhere.
The
birth certificate has a photo?
So I would carry this to the Secretary of State's office and say "
No really that's me, you can tell by the dimples, see"
Seriously though, the states run the elections and not so much the federal government. So all the initial requirements vary but bottom line just be a citizen and above age and you're fine to vote. In the great state of Michigan
this is the process for registering to vote. A photo id rule has recently been added but you don't have to show photo id and can tell anyone who asks
that they can go take a flying f*** at a rolling donut that you don't have photo id and sign something stating so.
Absence of photo id can not prevent you from voting.
Despite what may seem like an excessively open system there haven't been too many issues with non-citizens voting or people voting multiple times or things like that. Most of the actual elections themselves , Florida and Ohio, not withstanding, are roughly honest these days. It's what goes on before them-ie. finding out where your opposition is likely to vote and changing the rules-that is where the dishonesty and corruption is more likely to occur.
Again...not counting Florida...
