# Voting Rights Act of 2021. What would you put in this hypothetical Act?
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**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [August 10, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voting-rights-act-of-2021-what-would-you-put-in-this-hypothetical-act/917744 "2020-08-10T21:39:48Z")
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2020, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voting-rights-act-of-2021-what-would-you-put-in-this-hypothetical-act/917744/81 "2020-08-26T03:13:20Z")
You dont really need ID. You come in, show the ballot addressed to you, the worker checks your name, you sign your name, it is checked.
Or you simply mail in your ballot.
what need is there for a ID?
Remember, American states are about the size of a Euro nation, America being the size of Europe. Does the EU issue a EU ID? Do you have to have a EU ID to vote?
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### Author:  [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2020, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voting-rights-act-of-2021-what-would-you-put-in-this-hypothetical-act/917744/82 "2020-08-26T04:07:30Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#):
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> Yeah, after 9/11, there was a bit of a push for some authoritarian level bio-metric ID system. This is what the ACLU was opposing.
Whatever your opinion of their arguments, only one out of the five reasons is specific to post-9/11 efforts. The rest can be adapted towards any national ID system.
~Max
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