>>Neither dead people nor illegal immigrants steal your elections, it all comes down to alive politicians with legal status using them to steal the elections, and unfortunately a photo ID will not solve the problem in my experience, as in Argentina not only a photo ID is used, but one that even has finger prints on it is used (try that in North America!) and still dead people and illegal immigrants vote thanks to our beloved politicians. Not saying that it shouldn't be required, because I think it should, but I doubt it will fix the issue that stems from the politicians themselves, they will just find another way, like fake IDs :)
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>After the experience from Sloba's years, it's now near impossible to steal elections in Serbia - every party, and there are still many of them, knows all the tricks. They all take care to have their people to staff the voting stations, and watch over what the others are doing. So even if some tricks are tried, they never amount to much, and are never enough to influence the outcome. The only party claiming fraud is the one I like the least :).

I am not sure how they do it, as in Argentina it is supposed to be the same way, people from all parties should "man" (not sure what is the politically correct term here) the voting stations, but my guess would go to bribes on said officials, after all some parties do not have enough people for all stations and, most importantly, corruption is a national past time :)

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>Now they have a different problem - people rarely bother to come to vote. The general feeling is that all the parties consist of the same kind of thieves, so why not let the worse thieves in for a spell, just to teach the previous pack a little lesson.

In Argentina voting is mandatory, when you vote you get a stamp in your ID "booklet" and if you get caught and you are missing one, you could get fined which if you do not pay will prevent you to make arrangements or procedures for one year before the national agencies, provincial or municipal. No one may be appointed to serve in any public employment until after three (3) years from the date of election. (sorry, I Google-translated the fine part for I'm busy and lazy)