Maybe the best answer would be to just create a system where only people who are legally allowed to vote, and those that aren't allowed can't, and the provenance of any given ballot is very clear and secure.
This whole system is easy to maintain if you've had it in place. However, it's very hard to emit ID cards for a whole population that hasn't had one before. I'm not suggesting this is an easy fix for the USA, even beyond the cultural issues that would arise if trying to do a federal ID for every citizen like this.
How do you reconcile that with:
Senate Republicans block border security bill as they campaign on border chaos ( May 24, 2024 )
Nearly every GOP senator, along with six Democrats, voted to filibuster a bipartisan bill designed to crack down on migration and reduce border crossings.
The vote caps a peculiar sequence of events after Senate Republican leaders insisted on a border security agreement last year and signed off on a compromise bill before they knifed it. Democrats, wary of their political vulnerability when it comes to migration, had acceded to a variety of GOP demands to raise the bar for asylum-seekers and tighten border controls.
FWiW I'm not American, and it seems pretty clear that US Republicans vastly overhype the risks associated with the southern border, campaign hard on fear mongering, and tank any efforts by the Democrats to address those problems.
Politically it's a common conservative tactic having been used in Australia, the UK, and elsewhere.
What's curious is how people seem to fall for this and just accept what they're fed w/out looking into details.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/436...
I'll bet money that none of the changes are grouped into any sort of easy-to-digest format with cross-referencing and other mechanisms to make it easy for people to introspect it.
Much like the "Inflation Reduction Act" which was a clean energy bill that had nothing to do with inflation, the bill did the exact opposite of what it claimed.
- It funded billions of dollars for the NGOs which were aiding illegal immigration
- It normalized and allowed historically high illegal levels of immigration (10x normal)
- It removed the standard process for adjudicating asylum by judges and made it part of the federal ICE
- Required the US to fund lawyers for all people who were charged with illegal immigration (12 million in the last 4 years)
- It gave $60 billion to Ukraine, 3x more than border security [1]
- It gave $14 billion to Israel, $10B to Gaza, $2B for conflicts in the Red Sea, $4B to Taiwan
During this period where 12 million (3.4% of US population) people have crossed the border for residency illegally, many of which have been flown in by the US federal government, the federal government has sued Texas repeatedly while they are trying to build a border wall. They have flown in percentages of whole populations to US swing states to try to build voters. And illegal immigrants count in the census which determines US electoral votes.
The reason the GOP voted against it is because it was a wishlist for the Democratic party. There is nothing more complicated about it than that. If the GOP was such fear mongers, as you say, they'd vote for a bill that ameliorated their concerns.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-unveils-118-billi...
I am happy to see that the entirety of responses are effectively 'lol, actually read the law it is a disaster'.
My heart grew 1 size today.
"What's curious is how people seem to fall for this and just accept what they're fed w/out looking into details." Pot, meet Kettle.