[dariusm5]

I'm surprised there's nothing like that in the US already. Here in Mexico, the national ID is a voter ID card (IFE) and is carried by everyone.

[paulddraper]

Much of U.S. does require voter ID. Thirty-five states require it; 17 of those in form of a photo. [2] It gets contested a lot in the courts though.

Globally, it is pretty typical. Not just Mexico and the U.S., but France, Germany, Netherlands, Iceland, Canada, Brazil, India, Israel. [1]

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/Voter_identification_laws_by_state

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_Identification_laws

[markdown]

In Fiji we don't have a national ID but we can normally use one of either a voter ID card, drivers license, or tax ID card.

[seanmcdirmid]

The same people that want voters to provide ID when voting are very against free national ID cards. There are plenty of games that you can play at the state level in discouraging or somehow confusing the ID issue (does the address have to up to date on your DL, or even the right state for college students?), which doesn’t apply when a national ID is considered (none of that info is on your passport, but it costs $100+ to get that).