Where are the folks who can’t afford an ID expected to find a notary public?
No, but the poll worker has known me and Mr. S personally for many years, him since they were in school together, me since we got married. Pretty sure she knew it was really us. 
Most banks around here will do it for free, although they’ll grouse about it a bit.
I can understand where concerns might arise about an ID requirement being turned into a kind of poll tax. But honestly how much does it cost to get a state issued ID (not a driver’s license, but just an official ID with your picture on it)? In my state I think it’s $10 and it’s good for eight years. I can’t imagine it being that much more elsewhere. If it’s really that much of a worry, I’m sure they could institute some sort of policy where they just waive the fee if the person can prove they’re on public assistance, unemployed or undergoing some sort of financial hardship.
Really? That’s the argument you want to make?
You know it takes a minimum of one form of photo ID to be legally employed in the United States, don’t you (I-9 Form, List A)? Show me the ID-less masses that you’re so concerned about and I might reconsider, but otherwise that argument has zero merit. None whatsoever.
Arizona here. I always get asked for a photo ID, and today was no different. I have no problem with that.
Oh come on, Airman, you know every time this subject comes up there’s a whole clown car of impossible and improbable scenarios where people moan about “but…what if the voter sprang fully-formed from the brow of Zeus and doesn’t have a birth certificate, never worked a day in their life, never had a Social Security card, never married, never drove, never had a utility bill in their name, never had a bank account, not only never signed a legal document they’re completely illiterate, and they’re blind, and deaf, and they have no arms, legs, or head, and can only communicate by playing the kazoo with their asshole. And they have 4 personalities - one of them’s a lion, RRRRAWR! What then, Repugnican haytemonkey?”
No checking of ID in Oregon, since they mail us our ballot and we mail it back in. When I voted in Utah they checked my ID.
Texas. Yes. last election, I used my sams club card. This time I had my drivers license on me.
I don’t remember what happened the one time I voted in Colorado, but I’ve never been asked for ID in Illinois. I go in, they usually recognize me, look me up in the book, and hand me the page to sign.
Then they give me a ballot and I go use it.
What bothers me a bit is that I mentioned to the lady that there would be several of us (from my family) in there and she said my middle daughter was listed. I told her that Morning is in NM now and she said, “Oh, they don’t take them out.” Anybody could have used her name and voted, and who would know she doesn’t live here anymore?
Huh. I’ve been voting in Missouri for a few years now and have yet to have my ID checked. I do always hold on to my voter registration card though.
Idaho here, and yes they did. And then they had my address on their list wrong and the very nice woman said, “Oh, you moved!” and I said, “No, you have it down wrong!” One number was off. They wrote it down correctly and off I went.
I don’t mind having some sort of ID check as long as there’s some way to provide it without having to pay. I drive, so I don’t have that problem.
At the office where they’ve gone to present their statement.
Sure - maybe not me, but I can certainly see it happening. So, let’s say Joe Schmo shows up to vote, and someone has already voted in his place. A dispute is filed immediately with the Poll Judge, he casts a provisional ballot, and it is dealt with “later.” Which never comes, or comes too late.
I live in NWI, which likes to play Chicago Machine politics, but with much more stupid players. I have no problem believing that some Dem would cook up a plot and disenfranchise lots of county votes.
Iowa. Photo ID needed only for new voters, or voters new to the precinct. Poll workers have a printed voter register and a computerized register.
Something I’ve noticed over the years is that deceased voters and voters who’ve moved from the area stay on the register. We had people in the register who’ve been gone (one way or the other) for years. We also had one voter who could have voted twice. He had two registrations – one using his first initial middle name, one with first name middle initial. Same address, DOB, SSN.
We’ve asked the auditor about the outdated registrations. She said they need documentation to make changes – death certificate, notarized statement from the person who moved, etc. It’s good that they don’t just take the word of poll workers (I went to his funeral!) 
, but it does leave things open for some small scale fraud.
I got carded. But to register, not to vote. I moved across the river earlier this year, so I had to re-register in my new town.
Nobody carded me, but then several of the poll workers were students of mine, so it wasn’t necessary.
New York City (at least) has a registered voter book with a copy of your signature (from your registration form) by your name – you sign again before you’re allowed to vote and get challenged if the signature is too different.* Otherwise no ID is required, except in special cases where it’ll say right there “ID REQUIRED.”
I worked the polls yesterday and not one of the people who came to my table required ID, although there were some in the book who would have had to produce it had they come in.
If someone had actually already signed by your name and somehow not been caught, you could have filled out an affidavit ballot, which would be sent to the BoE, researched and either traced back to your voter registration form for signature matching or might possibly require your follow-up to complete the investigation, most likely leading to proof that you’re the actual voter.
- As you know, it’s hard to duplicate a signature you haven’t practiced, unless you’ve gone through elaborate preparation of getting an example of that person’s signature, practiced, and have it down pat.
No midterm for us down here, but just as a data point, for the last 30 years our registered voter card, mandatory to vote, *IS *a photo ID issued by the State Elections Commissioner free of charge.
It’s deliberately NOT Real-ID compliant, so as to limit it to the sole use of voting, and the SEC is seeking to phase it out and move into an application where your pic and signature is inserted digitally into the voting rolls, so the poll worker can just look you up onscreen or in the printed list and they can do away with the expense of printing and issuing the cards.
No. No one ever has to my recollection.