[javajosh]

So, eliminate voter registration. It's possible, but you have to check citizenship at some point in the process, like at the poll. Which is a political firebrand! Although it would kind of make sense to me to use a federal id, like a social security card, to cast a vote.

And doing it in advance solves a few important logistical problems - not least of which is giving states a chance to do sanity checks on results.

[amluto]

Huh? Voter registration isn’t a problem. Trafficking in voter registration is data is a problem. If a state wants to use voter registration data for voting, fine. If a broker wants to sell voter registration to a client so the client can use it for marketing, surveillance, or most anything else, not fine.