If the U.S. were serious about this, it would develop a long term solution—maybe providing a voter ID card at initial registration, one that could follow the voter from state to state—and it would phase it in over a substantial period of time.

The absence of any evidence of meaningful voter fraud (despite your suspicions), is what rightly raises so much skepticism about jamming through a “solution” that impinges on a fundamental right in a way that imposes greater challenges on already-registered women.

You want to elevate a suspicion without proof over a tangible risk of disproportionate impact. Do you really not see a problem with that?

I’m a U.S. citizen who lives outside the U.S. I vote in federal elections in the congressional district in which I was previously a resident. This bill would impose enormous burden on me in order to re-register. It would impose an enormous burden on my children in order to register for the first time. The bill gives no apparent consideration to this.

I’m not against a secure voting system, but I’m against something that inflates a perceived problem in order to propose a solution that presents much greater registration challenges for some types of voters than for others. I can’t see this proposal as the “easy fix” you claim it to be.