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Right, I'm aware. Most democracies do not have voter registration, but do have voter ID requirements.

This is the system you believe we should establish, on the basis that it's the international norm?

Most democracies don't have a byzantine process for obtaining an ID, and proving that you're who you claim you are. So if you can make the ID issuing process in US work as well as it does in, say, Germany, sure, there's no problem with requiring an ID to vote.

I wish you weren't being down voted. You're asking reasonable, technical questions. Without getting into the politics of it all.

I think he's being downvoted mostly because of his tone, which comes across as a bit too snarky.

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