I see nothing wrong with requiring an ID card to vote.
Here is how I'd do it:
First, implement a national system for federal level elections. Standard interface coast to coast. I would go with something that can be uploaded on any computer and a peripheral smart card reader but if you wanted to just have the standardized voting machines, that's fine. So the same equipment is used for every federal level election coast to coast. Localities can used beans in a jar for their own State, County, City, Hamlet elections or they will be allowed to upload ballots onto the the equipment as well. Most will use the standardized interface.
Next issue a standardized nationwide ID card. You can use this card to cast a ballot coast to coast. Once you insert it in the machine mentioned above, it calls up your local ballot. So if you work in Philly but live in Maryland, you can vote on your lunch break in Pennsylvania. The card would be the same coast to coast with your picture on it. The cards would be absolutely free. Other acceptable IDs would include State issued ID cards or driver's license.
Finally, there would be a provisional ballot for those who do not have one of the acceptable ID's listed above. These ballots would have to be filled out by hand like a scan-tron like we had back in school. This is to help eliminate stuffing the ballot boxes with voters who are either by mistake or by audacity, voting in the wrong location.
That is pretty much the nuts and bolts of it.
Or......just have every citizen show the ID they already have. Why is the first reaction from liberals “more Federal government and everybody is the same”? It really is a disturbing trait of you people.
So the poll workers will have a far easier time deciding what is and is not valid. So that the software in the device will read your information off the card and allow one to vote away from their home.
You forgot one- so that the federal government can control the entire voting system.
That’s a bad idea. I will accept that you want to ease the burden and stress of poll workers (they are somebody’s grandma) , but let’s be serious for a moment. The voting trends show that early voting and mail in voting is growing and already widely used. So in a relatively short time, the only people who will be showing up at a poll with no ID to vote will be a big population of fraudulent voters.
Don’t worry, you Democrats are real good at signing people up to collect a government check, and they will always vote for you, so just sign up some more.