A Federal Photo ID Act

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11. The problem isn't voter-fraud or voter-suppression.

The problem is that the US is somehow incapable of providing its citizens with legal documents that would make voter-suppression more difficult.

The US-government COULD launch a program to get every voter a national ID. But then you guys would protest how it infringes on your freedom to be a nobody with an unverifiable identity.

For example: Me
I'm a german citizen.
- I have a birth-certificate.
- My birth-certificate plus a form filled out by my parents got me a national ID when I was a teenager.
- When getting my national ID, I was automatically added to the voter-rolls.
- Getting my first job got me a file with name, address and everything at the social-security administration and at the finance-ministry.
- When moving to another town, you have to go to the municipal administration and tell them that you now have residence here. They will automatically update your ID, the local phone-book, the voter-rolls here and back in your old town, your file at the social-security administration and your file at the finance-ministry.

The government has everything covered. The system is so air-tight that I DON'T EVEN NEED TO SHOW MY PHOTO-ID WHEN VOTING. Every voter gets an election-notification by mail, one month in advance. It tells you what election it is, and when and where you are supposed to vote. Owning this notification also serves as the election-ID. There is no need for me to show anything else but this letter when I go to cast my vote.