So how would such a person vote? Or is voting reserved for people who aren't fucked over by life?
This problem has been solved by most countries that require ID to vote. You set up a free and mandatory national ID card scheme.
These are unpopular in Anglophone countries, because they somehow convinced themselves that this would impact their privacy, or that being given a piece of plastic violates their freedom. I guess it's down to the Democrats to convince voters otherwise.
I am not against the free ID systems. Weird that these voter ID laws never have that, just "oh, pay a fee when you visit this specific location"
I don't know how its done here, but they do use a Personal Number (social security). What i like about it is that it includes your birthdate. So to steal an ID number, you'd need to match, within like 10-15 years, of the person you stole it from otherwise it would be easy enough to spot.
Could also have a state run voter database linked to social security so at worse, you can only fraud vote once in the state, even if you try at multiple locations.
Link the state databases together to run queries and you can match SS#s across states to see if two people voted with the same number.
But god forbid states link data...