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I suspect it is 100% intentional and they know exactly what they are doing sadly - property ownership or a fixed address is not a prerequisite to voting and it isn't permissible to establish new reasons for ineligibility. There is sadly a rich tradition of screwing people over and ignoring the plain text of the law.

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It is also a decent control against voter fraud. Unless we get voter ID, a rather important one.

Also, it occurs to me that representation is based on residency. A homeless guy in my city isn't necessarily a resident of exactly one district.

European here. Can't they just use national ID card like social security number?

Here, every national has a unique citizen card, but in the US it's stranger, using driver's license since there's no citizen ID...

Social Security numbers aren't intended to be a national ID. Social Security cards have no address or photo. They just have your name and social security number. They are flimsy cardboard, not plastic, and I think they state right on it that laminating it invalidates the card.

They aren't designed to be used like ID. They are designed to actively undermine attempts to use them as ID.

The US is a long way off from a national ID.

We've been doing just fine running elections for a couple centuries without a national ID card. I'd focus on voting machine and ballot security.

How is repeat-voting stopped?

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