Reply #40: You got me scratching my head.

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The only standard that applies in most states is that you're willing to attest that you are a citizen and that you're over 18.

In most states, you don't need any documentation at all to vote. Most states make it incredibly friction-free to register to vote.

I think that's just fine. That slope hasn't been slippery at all.

Convenience has been the operating principle when it comes to voting in America for a while now, and I have yet to see evidence that this is a bad thing. People who actually want to vote in the US is such a rare thing that the gov't doesn't try to put up hurdles for people who really care (other then subject them to criminal liability for lying on their registration form).

In fact, the only stories I've heard about people voting when they're not allowed to have nothing to do with citizenship. Apparently, a lot of people with winter homes in FL vote in both their home state and in FL. I bet the same thing happens in Arizona. When are FL and AZ going to pass a law that requires the state to check part-year residents' voting records against the voting records in the states in which they have second homes?