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I mean, a single national ID card would be one way of preventing this so long as there was a trustworthy way of ensuring that it was updated with everybody's actual address and the like. I don't know that we would implement it in such a way as to have that, leading ultimately to another target for this kind of activity rather than a shield from it.
Nightmare scenario with the current administration would be such a thing being tied to citizenship somehow. Mail comes back undelivered and suddenly you have to dig out your birth certificate and explain things to some shitheel from ICE?
but there already is some form of address that govt knows, in most of cases, right? when govt needs to deliver something to you, like, say, court order, they need some address
out there it works like this: there is a legal requirement to have registered an address. it's on you, because when it's not done, some important papers might end up somewhere where you have no idea they might be. it's not in ID, and based on this couple of things are determined like voter lists per district or what tax office are you associated with
My experience is that it's pretty fragmented with different agencies or programs tracking information separately. You obviously need to let the DoL know where you're living as part of registering for whatever, but they don't share that information with the unemployment people or whoever. And that's before you get into the state vs federal divide.