A National ID system you say? you mean like REAL ID?

As for biometrics, what do you think a picture is?

To quote you, Nonsense
Every time I've voted int he UK I've never needed an ID. In fact, until a few years ago, UK driving licenses didn't even have photos. You just give your name and address when you walk in. You don't even need the ballot card that's sent to you in the post.
Don't go saying 'all other democracies require' when they don't. Some basic research does wonders....

how about this: Five Myths about Voter Fraud Funnily enough, the first one is about ID laws and their ineffectiveness at doing anything except disenfranchising.

You quote: "A 2006 survey of more than 36,000 voters found that only 23 people in the entire sample would be unable to vote because of an ID requirement" Now, do you know how many fraudulent votes were cast in Maryland because of a lack of photoID checking? Less than 23 TOTAL, not '23 out of 36,000', but total. VoterID fraud is a non-existant problem, that is somehow 'solved' by disenfranchising 0.5% of the population? The problem is people assume it's a big deal. In Ohio, across the 9 Million votes cast in 2002 and 2004 combined, a total of FOUR ballots cast because of VoterID fraud. If we assume Ohio had similar percentage of people without a government-issued ID, you've dienfranchised 0.5% to prevent 0.000044% VoterID fraud. Or taken the votes away from 11,250 people for every VoterID fraud case. In REALITY, most of the Voter Fraud that goes on, wouldn't be stopped by VoterID requirements anyway. So, if stopping Voter Fraud was the objective, then you've got to find another method, because this one won't do a thing.

You know the author of that piece isn't American, right? He's actually Swedish. There's an 'about the authors' section at the end.

Thank you for this. That's actually the EXACT point of my first piece in the book, "Breaking the Two Party Two-Step"

I'm not a dick like that. I't's my submission to slashdot. Thus I've got a vested interest in making sure y'all get the book!

It's been slashdotted offline!!! There's download links on the twitter feed! https://twitter.com/#!/NoSafeHarbor

It's available on torrent. We're using the canadian pirate party's CaPT torrent tracker. Magnet is magnet:?xt=urn:btih:79ADFF2965C672CC66F2AD54D67857BD3BAEEC61&dn=NoSafeHarbor_eBooks-USPirateParty&tr=http%3a//www.pirateparty.ca/tracker/announce.php OR the torrent file is http://bit.ly/x5gtHe Keep track of @nosafeharbor for more info

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Maybe, maybe not. A lot of RR trackers are scene based. If you've got access to a scene dump to make the torrent in the first place, you don't then need to use the torrents to get more stuff also available on the dump.Besides which, it eats into your e-peen 'ratio'