[mschuster91]

> Furthermore, when I went to vote recently, it was certainly not "validated". And this was the AEC.

Note I'm German and can only speak for the German election process here, having served in half a dozen election boards. Usually here it is enough if you bring your election notification ("Wahlbenachrichtigung"), so that we can cross-check your name and voter roll number on the notification against our records, and reject you if the name has been already registered for in-presence voting or if there have been issued by-mail voting documents. We usually only demand ID cards if there are inconsistencies (e.g. someone looking like age 20 shows up with a DOB that suggests age 40 or someone presenting as female shows up with a male name), but these cases are extremely rare, and the inter/trans folks with deadname ID cards usually show both their ID card and the unofficial Ergänzungsausweis [1] so that we know there is nothing sketchy going on.

[1] https://dgti.org/2021/09/05/der-ergaenzungsausweis-der-dgti-...