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I've seen mention of voter registration deadlines, of voter ID cards, and other such impediments to voting the bastards out. Or in, as the case may be.

In Maine, you can register at the polls on election day. For that, you need proof of residency and a valid photo ID. But since I'm already registered, I just walk in, give my name, the poll worker checks that against their list, and gives me a ballot. No ID required.

I think the general idea is, this place is small enough that somebody in the crowd will know if I give a name that ain't mine...

Date: 2006-11-08 01:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dsgood.livejournal.com
That's about how it worked for me in Minneapolis. As it happens, I did know the poll worker who checked me off.

I grew up between two places of a couple hundred people each, in Ulster County, NY. (They're both now somewhat larger.) I used to snicker when the Cheers theme song got to "a place where everyone knows your name" -- grew up in a place where it was harder to find a bar where people didn't know your name.

Date: 2006-11-12 01:06 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
The new poll worker this year was insisting everyone show their ID even though Hilda (decades as a poll worker) flipped to the right page in the book when I showed up (without asking my name), and the third poll worker was my next door neighbor. First time that's happened since I moved back home. Perhaps it's because I had a fever of 101 and said to Hilda "This is the last time I'll be voting here. When the new house is finished I guess I'll be voting in [this precinct] and the new worker said "This IS [this precinct]" I said "I've got a fever--I meant [other precinct]." They have similar names.

Mary Anne in Kentucky, where we pretty much exclude the graveyard vote nowadays

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