I believe the law is that if you registered by mail since 2003 they are supposed to ask for picture ID. Other than that they are allowed to ask for id but don't have to and I guess never do.
Some of this is left over from trying to avoid intimidating tactics that prevented people from voting (e.g. voting cards in the south that black people couldn't easily get).
There is this antiquated system of calling out your name and observers can hear it. One of the ideas was that everyone knew their neighbors and .... A number of elections ago I was involved in a poll watching project where we kept track of which registered voters actually voted by listening to the names and marking them on our registered voter sheets and near the end of the day we brought our lists to a phone bank where we called people who we had IDed as supporters of our side who hadn't voted.
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Date: 2004-11-04 08:47 am (UTC)Some of this is left over from trying to avoid intimidating tactics that prevented people from voting (e.g. voting cards in the south that black people couldn't easily get).
There is this antiquated system of calling out your name and observers can hear it. One of the ideas was that everyone knew their neighbors and .... A number of elections ago I was involved in a poll watching project where we kept track of which registered voters actually voted by listening to the names and marking them on our registered voter sheets and near the end of the day we brought our lists to a phone bank where we called people who we had IDed as supporters of our side who hadn't voted.