ID is not necessarily required. e.g. in Australia, you turn up to the polling station (usually a local school or whatever), go to the desk and tell them your name.
Or someone else's, how would they know?
Those of us who oppose the death penalty see no reason to "fix" the system, and instead prefer to keep it as dysfunctional as possible until there is enough popular will to abolish it.
Revealing a typical left wing tactic. When popular opinion opposes what you want, rather than argue the case and convince people to do things the way you would prefer introduce "improvements" to the current system which actually make it worse, then use the results of these "improvements" to argue that the system is hopelessly flawed and must be replaced.
What would it take for a connected device, whether a wallet or a smoke detector, to gain mass appeal?
For it to only be connected to devices I own. I am sorry, but I just do not get the "Internet of things".
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.