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If there was no fraud, and all the recent elections were secure then this wouldn’t matter.

My contention has always been that until we see the basis of identity secured like Estonia/CAC/PIV/Passports through strong identity proofing and robust processes, we are not ready to talk about the Pandora’s box that is voting machines.



This kind of federal identification is a non-starter in US politics due to the history of its, well, federalism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_documents_in_the_Unit...


It is. That's why companies like palantir want to do it in the shadows. They will get our info either way, as they have people who's full time job is to ensure so.




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