Reply #30: The problem is that in the US the idea is that you want to make

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voting as easy as possible for people to encourage participation.

This is a rule that will no doubt decrease the number of legal voters who participate.

For example, a lot of people register to vote at registration drives without any plan to do so when they leave their homes in the morning.

How many people carry their birth certificate with them just as a matter of course? Nobody. People will not have with them the forms they now need to register to vote. So now, the only people who register to vote will be people for whom the idea strikes them when they're at home near their documentation.