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one person = one vote, so you need to track who voted. I don't think the way we do it is necessarily effective, but that's the justification.

Your other comments are probably justified though.

Yes, but other countries do voting without the need to pre-register. Some US states (e.g. Iowa) do voting with same day registration.

I might actually be okay with an ID requirement if we also got rid of the previous registration requirement.

Here in Sweden one just goes to the voting place(in ones district) shows their ID and one gets checked of the list.

The List is just a list of every one that lives in the area.