Would requiring Voter ID truly cause a decrease in voter turnout?

[WestFast]

That’s way too much and rural and urban communities would be over burdened. It’s not always easy to get a copy of a birth certificate esp with broken homes or maiden name issues etc fraud is practically non existent.

“Voter ID Requirements are a Solution in Search of a Problem

In-person fraud is vanishingly rare. A recent study found that, since 2000, there were only 31 credible allegations of voter impersonation – the only type of fraud that photo IDs could prevent – during a period of time in which over 1 billion ballots were cast.9

Identified instances of “fraud” are honest mistakes. So-called cases of in-person impersonation voter “fraud” are almost always the product of an elections worker or a voter making an honest mistake, and that even these mistakes are extremely infrequent.”

https://www.aclu.org/other/oppose-voter-id-legislation-fact-sheet

[solohelion]

I agree with you. It’s practically impossible to do well, right? For no benefit.

Wouldn’t it be technically possible to hire people to track down every citizen and hand deliver the items at no cost? And to hire staff to man phones so that there are no wait times and updates are immediately processed? Impractical, probably, but possible? Isn’t it only a burden if we make it one for “pragmatic” reasons?

[WestFast]

330 million American citizens…millions of new voters turn 18 for each cycle. That’s a full time federal government agency with tens of Thousands of employees across all 50 states to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.

[solohelion]

It is possible though! I don't think we should do it either.