I don't understand why ID cards with digital features aren't really a thing in the U.S. In many countries, such as Germany, there are ID cards that you can scan with an app to prove your identity. That makes it much harder for fraudsters to simply open bank accounts in other people's names.

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eunos 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I mean this is a country in which the question of Voter ID can be very controversial.

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arrrg 7 hours ago | parent [-]

That’s the wrong framing.

In Germany every adult has to have an ID card. You cannot not have one. As a consequence requiring one for voting is practically unproblematic.

In the US the situation is fundamentally different plus there is a history of heinous racial targeted disenfranchisement of voters to consider that is in the extremely recent past and alive and well.

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tencentshill 6 hours ago | parent [-]

And what if germany turns authoritarian again? Unthinkable I know, but ID cards will only become a tool of oppression.

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eunos 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Only Anglo-Saxon society thinks like that. I never ever see another society think like this.

It's like seething over criminal justice system (police, court, prisons), what if govt turns authoritarian? Criminal justice system will become a tool of oppression.

Sure criminal justice system can be and have been a tool of oppression, but no sane society would forgo criminal justice under this fear.

	▲	zarzavat 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		To be fair some things that are considered normal in non-Anglo Saxon societies are considered authoritarian in Anglo Saxon societies, in particular having to register your whereabouts with the government, or having to carry ID at all times.