alt Hacker NewsThe answer here is to make getting a government issued ID a straightforward matter and a national priority.
I cannot think of another significant country that hasn't had this figured out for decades.
The answer here is to make getting a government issued ID a straightforward matter and a national priority.
I cannot think of another significant country that hasn't had this figured out for decades.
Pretending that government IDs are super duper hard to give out is a time-honored American tradition.
After all, imagine if the government had a database with every person's name in it! You'd have like 300 million rows? Nobody's built a computing machine that could do that. And then how would you get the cards to people? You'd have to send out horses and buggies to every corner of the nation. And where would you find enough coachmen to do that, and roads to drive the coaches on???
No, clearly it's unpossible.
So we have to reserve the use of government IDs for really important things, like checking if you can buy cold medicine, and voting must remain insecure.