“A bottle of purple ink is cheap.”
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I’ve gradually come around to the idea of the ABSOLUTE NECESSITY of transitioning (quickly) to biometric voter identification. So if you leave your driver’s license at home you could still vote since you didn’t leave your fingerprints (and/or retina, etc.) at home.
It could be used to minimize many avenues of voter fraud and, where necessary, could be used as evidence that a uniquely identifiable individual individual has tried to vote for someone other than his or herself and thus committed a felony.
Biometrics could also be used to prevent absentee voter fraud. For example the return absentee ballot envelope could require a biometric signature (e.g., fingerprint impression that could be scanned to verify the identity of the voter) that could be verified BEFORE the ballot is cast.
Of course, the progressives would fight such a biometric verification process intensely since it would prevent their massive vote fraud.
And by the way biometric voter identifications systems are in use in many countries—some which are “third world” such as Ghana. America could do it with relative ease.