Young man obtains voting ballot under Attorney General Eric Holder's name

[homelycooking]

The fundamental question is this:

Do you want to make sure that the franchise is extended to as many people as possible, or do you want to make sure that the people who are not eligible to vote are prevented from doing so?

If you want the former, you have to be willing to accept that there will be a few cases of fraud.

If you want the latter, you have to be willing to accept that millions of eligible voters, mostly those with some form of economic or social disadvantage, will be prevented from voting.

[homelycooking]

No, you can have the latter and have ID's for all people, like in almost any other western country. But due to the polarizing political system, apparently it cannot be done in the US, even though it would be easy, if the GOP/DEMs would display some common sense once in a while and work for the people and not against each other.

Yes, but only if those IDs are provided without monetary or opportunity cost to all people, regardless of spatial, economic and cultural situation. Anything more would constitute a poll tax.