America the Outlier: Voter Photo IDs Are the Rule in Europe and Elsewhere | RealClearInvestigations

America the Outlier: Voter Photo IDs Are the Rule in Europe and Elsewhere | RealClearInvestigations

"Democrats and much of the media are pushing to make permanent the extraordinary, pandemic-driven measures to relax voting rules during the 2020 elections – warning anew of racist voter “suppression” otherwise. 

Yet democracies in Europe and elsewhere tell a different story – of the benefits of stricter voter ID requirements after hard lessons learned. 

• ...Of 47 nations surveyed in Europe -- a place where, on other matters, American progressives often look to with envy -- all but one country requires a government-issued photo voter ID to vote. 
• ...Seventy-four percent of European countries entirely ban absentee voting for citizens who reside domestically...Read all.