Idea for a voter-ID-law (Would it be workable?)

[DetlefK]

7. It was intented to counter voter-suppression on the state-level.

If you have registered, the state couldn't purge from the voter-rolls, because federal law trumps state-law.

For example, if you are a student, you claim the dorm as your residence and the voting-ticket is tied to that address. The state could claim that you really live with your parents all it wants: You get to vote where you pick up your mail.

Or if you are so old, that you never got the appropriate IDs back then, I could imagine something like a sworn, written testimony to register: "The person on the attached photo is A. Hereby reputed under oath by B and C."
Once that old person is registered, the strict phase of voter-identification has been passed.


Yes, it would be kind of a poll-tax, but you would only have to pay it once.