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It sounds crazy to us, but I think we under-appreciate the way the US was formed: more decentralized than we are used to elsewhere (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism & Tocqueville)
And one effect of decentralization is that you don't start with a central ID system (even today less than half of Americans have passports, the closest to a national ID card).

As for preventing people from voting, I don't see it from a French perspective, but I can definitely understand them on it, they think the voter identification they have now is good enough (it's not like anyone just enters the voting booth, you actually have to register before and give various proofs depending on the place, it's just not standardized which makes it easy to get scared about it), and trying to add more verification just unjustly targets people who historically have been targeted in voter suppression attempts. Plus you risk big if you actual try to illegally vote.

another example of us not understanding america

but I love the "ID card??? what are you a commie? this is america" vibe