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This is something I'm not very informed about in US politics. In my country, it's well-established that you need IDs to vote. I was surprised that it wasn't required in the USA, so I checked with Claude whether there was an issue with ID access in the USA. I didn't know obtaining IDs was cumbersome in the USA. They need to subsidize ID access:

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Yeah, this disproportionately affects the lower class of Americans who can't take time off work during business hours to spend 4-6 hours at the DMV getting their ID. So many argue that requiring an ID to vote goes against the constitutional right for ALL american citizens to vote if some citizens are excluded for socio-economic reasons. Blockchains can solve this, too.

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I'm not an expert on this, but iften times it's not that they "don't have ID" but that they don't have valid ID. I.E., expired or mismatched addresses. It's normally people who live in rural areas to far from DMVs, the elderly who aren't as mobile, low income families who often live in big cities and don't need a vehicle, and young college age americans who do just fine with their student IDs or live at home with parents. The why and how is speculative, but this makes up over 10% of eligible voters.

I’ll be honest, I’m still struggling to wrap my head around this. In the US, it’s almost impossible to do anything without an ID. Eg, you need an ID to get a job. If someone is too busy working, they presumably already have an ID right? Otherwise they wouldn’t have been able to complete their w2?

Well, non-citizens can't vote because they can't register to vote, but, yeah, I think we all agree there. It should be easier to get ID, it should be easier to register to vote, and it should be easier to vote.

Then the problem is to help those people get an ID easier, they require it for many other things anyway not skip it for “they don’t have time”. 

I doubt investment bankers have more time but miraculously getting them. Only citizens should vote, no one else.

Every citizen is still required to register to vote. There are other security measures in place to prevent fraud. But if we want to beef those measures up, let's bring voting and voter registration onchain. Authenticity can be validated with zk-Proofs.

How do the people who believe ID requirements infringe on voting rights reconcile this with the need to prevent voter fraud?