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...but not for voting.

Actually, they do require digital ID checks for online voter registration.

> To register online you will need to use a NY.Gov ID. If you have previously used a NY.Gov ID with another agency, you may use the same login to access the Online Voter Registration portal.

https://elections.ny.gov/voter-registration-process

Yeah, you need it to register, but you emphatically do not to submit a ballot, which is the part that actually matters.

You can’t get a ballot to submit without registering, so I don’t see the big deal.

You can literally walk into any voting location where you know the name of a voter, and vote in their name. There is no check.

How do I know this? Because every time I have ever voted in NYC, I have walked into the location, given them my name, and voted. There is no check.

This is not some complex security flaw that requires great ingenuity to exploit.

And what do you suppose happens next when you vote in someone else’s name at their specific voting location?

Nothing. If the next person comes in to vote after you (which is easy enough to avoid if you use active voter lists), they might issue a provisional ballot. How do they know which voter is lying? They don’t check ID, and the other ballot isn’t associated with a name.

You have to be completely ideologically blinkered not to see a problem here.

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