>>>Because many of them don't have such an ID (turns out about 10% of PA voters have neither a drivers license nor the state-provided non-drivers photo ID). Getting such an ID can be expensive (both in actual costs and in work hours lost), difficult and time-consuming.
>>>
>>>And why should a person who has voted at the same polling place for decades, and is known to the poll workers (who are, of course, her neighbors), now need a photo ID?
>>>
>>>Tamar
>>
>>I see. Everyone has an id card in Belgium so that's not a problem.
>
>Belgium is an almost entirely white nation. That is the ugly, ugly elephant in the room.
in Austria you have to have a Passport to vote in order to proof your nationality; a drivers license does not proof nationality.
I have a valid Connecticut driver's license but I am not a US citizen, therefore I don't vote.