[Chu Gary]

I recently spent two months in Costa Rica and figured that they probably had similar, or worse, problems as compared to the "advanced" state of U.S. politics. Well, Cerveza breath, not true!! Voting is an option, not a requirement. When you arrive to vote, you go not to a general voting booth, but to a building (typically a schoolhouse) which is divided, by room, into about 40 different voting rooms. You enter the room for your alphabetical order, state your name and they look you up in a booklet which includes your picture. Once they decide you are who you claim to be, you can vote. After voting, you proffer your ballot; before it is accepted, you're required to affix your thumbprint, THEN they accept it. The Dim-ocrats should start worrying!!

[Charles Martel]

Once they decide you are who you claim to be, you can vote.

Egad! Disenfranchisement! < sarcasm, sort of... >