# Do people in the USA think voting SHOULD be difficult?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-in-the-usa-think-voting-should-be-difficult/632138>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 21, 2012, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-in-the-usa-think-voting-should-be-difficult/632138 "2012-08-21T04:50:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-in-the-usa-think-voting-should-be-difficult/632138/41 "2012-08-24T04:08:40Z")

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> [@jackdavinci](#):
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> Just being able to show your registration card that gets mailed to your house every year does seem sufficient to me, for both sides of the debate. Is that an acceptable form of ID under these new laws?

Often not. Ohio has a pretty loose ID law for the time being (you can use a utility bill and things like that), and you still can’t use those cards.

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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-in-the-usa-think-voting-should-be-difficult/632138/42 "2012-08-24T04:38:29Z")

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> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> . . . Even dead people? . . . .

Fie, Sirrah! Wouldst thou disenfranchise the noble dead? (Walt Kelly.)

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> It looks like **Trinopus** is an example of that kind of person. I suppose even those people would be upset if their candidate or party were to lose an election because of voter fraud—they just don’t believe that’s at all likely.

Some years ago, a friend of mine voted twice. He registered at his parents’ home, and then again at his own address. I turned him in when he bragged about it to me. I hold democracy to be little short of sacred.

But a solution to a problem that ends up disenfranchising 100 times as many people as there were cases of fraud is a really, really shitty solution!

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**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-in-the-usa-think-voting-should-be-difficult/632138/43 "2012-08-24T15:40:41Z")

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I think it should be easy but secure. Each eligible voter should be able to vote one time, no more. The details of how that is accomplished is the tricky part.

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