[EL] fantasy policy alternative to voter ID laws

[David A. Holtzman]

And (or?) a still (digital) photo of each voter as part of sign-in, 
imprinted with registration info, that poll workers can call up on 
screen as photo ID if needed in future elections.
Without cost to the voter, of course.  With no risk of the voter losing 
the picture.

Would be interesting to use video to measure the time it takes for each 
look-up.  My wife has no patience for that.  So she votes by mail.
Did you know that in L.A., Calif., the pollworkers have to manually 
affix the alphabet tabs (stickers) on the pollbooks when they get a chance?

On 1/12/2012 2:39 PM, Paul Lehto wrote:
> A video recording device, focused solely on the table where persons 
> appear to see if they are in the pollbooks as registered voters would 
> do the trick.  No video of the actual process of casting the ballot 
> would be possible, and the videotape would provide additional benefits 
> such as the ability to determine if the number of votes cast matches 
> the number of voters who appeared at the table and were found to be 
> properly registered for that precinct.
>
> Paul Lehto, J.D.
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Jon Roland 
> <jon.roland at constitution.org <mailto:jon.roland at constitution.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 01/12/2012 01:52 PM, Doug Hess wrote:
>>     1) A poll worker takes a Polaroid photograph of you (i.e., instant
>>     print and no digital or negative copy)
>     Too expensive, and Polaroids are obsolete anyway. Can record
>     digital on a medium that erases itself after a certain period of
>     time.
>
>>     there should
>>     be a pyschological term for the perceptual bias or heuristic that
>>     makes a past barrier, burden, cost, etc. that was paid/overcome now
>>     appear smaller for others.
>     There are several. One is "classism". Another is "elitism".
>
>>     entry on informal logic in the Stanford Encyclopedia of
>>     Philosophy:http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-informal/#On  <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-informal/#One>
>     Otherwise an attempt to dress up illogic to make it seem respectable.
>
>     -- Jon
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