Because California has systematically made it impossible to audit elections there.
You have to be disinformed to think elections there are secure, you can't possibly know they are.
You have to be disinformed to think elections there are secure, you can't possibly know they are.
California's elections are widely audited, observed, and secure.
Stop spreading lies.
Getting past all this risks years in jail for... an extra vote in a safely blue state.
None of this requires an ID, in part because in the US, there's no law that you have to have an ID in the first place. "Papers, please!" used to be a derogatory thing about totalitarian regimes.
(More practically, if we Dems were rigging elections, we'd win more often.)
There isn't a ton of checking in advance but that doesn't mean we can't know if the results are legit. If there was a concerted, large-scale effort to impersonate voters, it could be done, and it would seriously screw things up. But it would not go undetected.
Additionally, a person can vote anywhere in a county, so all in-person voting sites maintain connectivity to that somebody doesn't go to multiple voting sites and vote multiple times, in addition to tracking the mail-in ballots.
When voting in person, you provide your name, address, and sometimes age, etc. in order to disambiguate you as the particular person.
Mail-in vote counting happens with outside observers watching, with verified signatures.
So the system protects against each registered voter only voting once.
Registration of voters is usually tied to driver's licenses, when you file a change of address you can check a box to have your registration updated. If you're a new voter, you can provide or drivers license, or if not, the county will follow up with you to obtain other information to ensure that you're not registered by other means and are in fact a real person with that name and address.
> anyone simply vote by claiming they are who they say they are?
Of course they can! That's only just and fair.
If you tried to steal somebody else's identity and vote as them, that would get flagged for multiple voting. Additionally, local political campaigns get lists of every registered voter, as well as which elections they voted in and party affiliation (if they chose one), which they use to campaign and knock on doors. Campaigns have sophisticated information systems to ensure that they don't bother the same voter multiple times, to indicate likelihood of voting and whether the canvasser thought the voter was going to vote for their candidate, etc. If there were a batch of fake voters somewhere, that would show up pretty quickly in these campaigning efforts.