The Red Brick Times

The requirements for voter identification are not uniform across the country. State requirements for votor identification are listed by the National Conference of State Legislatures web site. Be sure you don't get turned away when you try to deposit your grain of sand on the electoral beach.

Since laws generally creep in by bits and pieces, and build to unintended consequences, barriers to voting may increase until it becomes difficult for many to prove who they are without compromising personal information or privacy. Will a Social Security Number be mandated at a polling place? Would a fingerprint be required for voter identification? Could a DNA sample be demanded? How about an implanted electronic chip or a facial recognition system? If the laws governing our voting security begin to require such measures, abuse of the information becomes that much easier. Since our governments are populated with such as you and I, frail and faulty humans that we are, errors and omissions will continue to be the rule rather than the exceptions. Or maybe I just suffer from normal paranoia.
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