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by subharmonicon 1267 days ago
If you go look up past debates over the issue, you'll find that people have proposed solutions to that problem, only to have some politicians not be willing to pay for those solutions.

There have also been support for widening kinds of proof of identity allowed, and again there are politicians who are against that.

There had previously been debate over a free and easy-to-get national ID, but usually the pushback on that comes from people not wanting to feel tracked by the government.

I have to wonder if that would have more support today than in the past because of the amount of surveillance happening by private companies.