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Originally Posted by jimbomaybe
And how do you insure that the person on the registration card is the person who wants to vote, that the person has only one "card" that they will not walk down the street and vote again? honor system?
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Not sure if you've heard of this thing called electronics but it's kinda popular these days. You show up with that card, and an ID to show that you are the person whose name is on that card. The registrar fills in the little boxes on the top of a blank ballot with your registration ID# (like those boxes you had to fill in when you took placement tests, IQ tests, SATs, back in grade school). You fill in your choice for candidate, and stuff it in the box. Those little boxes the clerk filled in, that gets electronically sent into the system, so if anyone tries to vote with the same ID number, their vote is not counted. You can't vote again.
You only get one card. You don't get to request it. It's sent to you. If you claim you lost it or never got it, you have to go through the process of getting a new one, and the number for the old one is cancelled and not useable.
Sort of like if you lose your key card at the hotel. They cancel the digital data from that card and issue you a new one with a unique set of data.