"One state, Nevada, is proposing a different kind of voter ID law — one that would cull photos from the DMV and state databases rather than making voters bring their IDs to the polls. If a voter doesn’t have a photo in the database, they would be photographed at the polling station.Makes sense to me. If the bureaucracy already has a photo associated to a name, why not put the burden on the bureaucracy instead of the citizen.
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Saturday, January 12, 2013
Nevada and Voter ID
I don't have much problem with phasing in voter ID requirements, as long as it recognizes the problems of the elderly (and others). I'm struck by this paragraph in a Politico story:
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