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Most of the first world had that figured out a long time ago.
They haven't. The procedures in place only work if the folks in charge are honorable and the voters are trustworthy.
What we have, in the modern day, is a deep skepticism of elections outside of the NATO block and a naive presumption of infallibility inside the block (among liberals, mostly assuming their guys win).
In the US, in particular, even liberals are increasingly distrustful of the physical apparatus of vote collection and tabulation. It's been a long time coming (2000 and 2004 being very nakedly and obviously stolen races). But trustworthiness has taken a real nosedive since 2024.
You need to stop looking at americans as some sort of normal people whose problems apply to everyone else.
Motherfuckers can't even get the concept of national ID cards right.
No, I'm in Europe, but we have those issues too sometimes.
There's a sharp dispute over the purpose of such a card. Do you want cards to rapidly integrate people into your society? Or do you want them to strictly exclude and segregate people into immuntable castes?
Hard to create a single universal document if you can't agree on that premise.
It's just a national proof of citizenship it's not that deep.
I swear yall americans way too fucking dumb to be your own country
That's how the SSN was pitched, sure. Then it became a reliable unique identifier and started getting used for everything.
Which country do all the smart people live in, again?