From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Mon May 19 2003 - 22:38:14 MDT
--- Karen Rand Smigrodzki <karen@smigrodzki.org>
wrote:
> Harvey, are you saying that you live in an area
> where they check your ID
> to vote? You mean at the voting booth? I, having
> voted in MA, and PA and
> IN, and various regions in those states, have been
> each time disturbed by
> the fact that I have never ever been asked for any
> ID. All that has ever
> been done is to ask my name, and they check it off
> on a list of registered
> voters. It scares me, because anyone could say they
> were me and vote.
> Hasn't happened, but it could.
CA, or at least the part of it I reside in, requires
signature - signed in front of the poll workers - and
knowledge of address. Not official ID, but still a
step beyond just claiming to be X.
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