Out of nearly 200 countries across the world, at least 170 have some form of national ID or are implementing one, according to the political scientist Magdalena Krajewska. In places such as France and Germany, citizens pick up their identity card when they turn 16 and present it once they’re eligible to vote. Voter-ID requirements are the norm in many countries, as Republicans are fond of pointing out. What if the government simply gave an ID card to every voting-age citizen in the country? But as the party tries to pass voting-rights legislation before the next election, it is ignoring a companion proposal that could ensure that a voter-ID law leaves no one behind-an idea that is as obvious as it is historically controversial. D emocrats in Congress are considering a policy that was long unthinkable: a federal requirement that every American show identification before casting a ballot.
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