Did you have to show your ID to vote?

[Kate CA]

I didn't. In our township in PA, you only show your ID the first time you vote. The next time they just compare signatures. Honestly, I'd feel much better if everyone showed their ID every year.

 

So, ID or no ID in your area?

 

Ria

 

Yes, I did. It would bother me too!

[LauraGB]

Nope - no ID, no signature. Just had to verbally verify my address.

Scary.

[ereks mom]

:001_smile:

[RoughCollie]

No I.D. required here. I tell them my address and my name and they cross it off on a list. After I voted, I went to another table and the same thing happened with an exit list.

 

Anyone who has a town phone book can vote in my name because there is a reverse directory in it.

 

It isn't a very secure method, and it makes me wonder how many non-citizens or unregistered people are voting today across the country.

Edited November 5, 2008 by RoughCollie

[RoughCollie]

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx

 

I have your signature quote in one of those rub-on wall quotation things, and I plan to put it on the foyer wall. We have a dog and lots of books.

[Bee]

I live in a fairly small town and one of the women there today recognized me from previous years' voting.In any case,all I've ever had to do is sign the book.

[dirty ethel rackham]

Had to show ID and sign. Pretty painless, though. I think I waited for 3 minutes.

[Cheryl in NM]

I didn't. In our township in PA, you only show your ID the first time you vote. The next time they just compare signatures. Honestly, I'd feel much better if everyone showed their ID every year.

 

So, ID or no ID in your area?

 

Ria

 

No ID in NM, they don't even check signatures. I could be anybody. I just want in, say my name and one lady looks me up in a bunch of papers, tells my number to another lady who finds me in her bunch of papers and then I sign my name.

 

I'm so impressed with this whole operation! NOT!:001_huh:

[Paula in MS]

In MS, you don't have to show ID. You just state your name and address and they check you off and let you vote. You do have to sign in, though. It really is a shame. Everyone should have to show ID.

 

Paula

[unsinkable]

I show mine. I whip it out, slap it down and tell the old(er) lady to look under "M" in the book.

 

My dh never seems to have his and they never ask.

[Jennifer in MI]

YES!!! For the first time ever. I am glad they are finally requiring it here!

[Colleen]

I hate, hate, hate mail-in only voting. Hate it. Don't like it. Get the picture?;) But when we could go to a polling station, I was never once asked for my ID, nor was my signature checked ~ no nuthin'. It bothered me a great deal.

[Retired]

picture ID, verify address, sign-in

[Nestof3]

Yes, ID required here. I'm glad. It seems like an important enough thing that ID would be required.

[KidsHappen]

They checked ID, asked for address and verified address. I must look shady because the lady really looked me over and compared my picture whereas my dh was standing right beside me at the next lady and she barely checked him at all. Maybe my lady was just more thorough.

[Melinda in VT]

No ID required here in NH - just give your name and you vote.

 

This is how it is for us too. No ID, no sig.

[ma23peas]

In Alabama the laws are you have to have one form of ID...they have about 20 acceptable forms, one being a utility bill...I don't recall my picture ever being on the utility bill...I had my passport with me but the gentleman behind me just had his utility bill and that's all they asked for..

 

It boils me that there is no picture ID REQUIRED!!

Tara

[Tokyomarie]

In MI, I was asked for my picture ID.

[siloam]

None! But in Oregon we vote by mail. We do have to sign our ballots as well.

 

Heather

 

[LizzyBee]

No, for some strange reason in NC they say asking for ID is unconstitutional. They don't compare signatures to anything either. Seems to me the unconstitutional thing is people showing up to vote and being told they already did.

[Storm Bay]

No ID. You give your street address, and then, right in front of you, they turn to a printed page. If you wanted to, you could read a name upside down and pretend you're anyone. No ID, no signatures, nothing.

[Parrothead]

No, I didn't have to show mine.

[partyof5]

Nothing here. No ID, no sig, no address, no nothing. Just state your name, they check mark it on a list and in you go. I don't even know the woman who checked us in today, though I often do in our small town.

 

I find it disconcerting and was really hoping she would ask.

[Unicorn.]

No, but it was on of the things we voted on in the primary election. Dh and I voted for showing ID. I think it should be mandatory.

[CAMom]

I've never had to show id. I think every person should have to.

[Diann]

Yes, I had to show ID, and the signatures were compared.

 

Diann

[Holly IN]

Yes, here in Indiana you always have to show your ID every time!!

 

I love it!! :D

 

Holly

[Jennay]

Maryland here.

 

No ID. They did ask my name, address, and date of birth. (DOB was new - never been asked that before) I did have to sign something but my signature was not compared to anything. Then I voted electronically. I wish there was a paper trail.

[Jean in Newcastle]

Yes, ID. Yes, signed my name. (And showed my voter registration which is signed also). Washington State, Seattle area

[Harriet Vane]

Yes, I had to show ID.

[hsmamainva]

We (the hubby and I) had to show our IDs and state our full names and addresses.

 

Nothing to sign, though.

[Jennifer3141]

Both ID and signature here.

 

Jen

[mom31257]

Yes, I had to show ID and fill out a card with my name, address, and birth date.

 

I think showing ID should be a given, and should be required in every state. I also think every store should require ID for using a credit card. It would probably help cut down costs of theft.

[Danestress]

or is the whole state mail in only? That sounds so weird, and I would hate losing that feeling of going to the polls on voting day.

[Julieofsardis]

LOL

[Slartibartfast]

No we have to sign in and state our address

[AndyJoy]

I live in CA, and I did not have to show ID because I showed them the postcard I received in the mail telling me that I was registered and where to vote. Those who didn't have this card had to show ID.

[MyThreeSons]

I didn't. In our township in PA, you only show your ID the first time you vote. The next time they just compare signatures.

 

To what do they compare your signature? It seems that making sure the ID presented matches the person presenting it is a whole lot easier than digging thru some past voting records to see a signature. Maybe I'm misunderstanding here, though ......

[Laurie4b]

No, there is no ID and I think it's a travesty. Anyone could vote IN MY PLACE if they knew my name and address. That's it.

[Elaine]

I imagine they have a record that you've already voted, though, right?

 

No, I actually could have voted as myself and someone else but I did not.

[Renee in NC]

Not here. They ask for your name, then your address. There is a sticker for each person that gets pulled off, attached to a form, and you sign. Then you trade that signed form for a ballot. No comparing signatures, either.

[Jean too]

No, I voted early and was only required to sign my name. I've never been asked for ID to vote. The poll worker just asks for my name and address.

[CactusPair]

usually they don't ask, but yesterday they did. i showed my d.l. By law, according to the voting info i received, you are still able to vote if you don't have i.d.;you just have to sign something and then they cross your name off on their list to show you voted.

[Colleen]

or is the whole state mail in only? That sounds so weird, and I would hate losing that feeling of going to the polls on voting day.

 

Yes, it's a real shame. Oregon has been mail-in only for several years, and Washington is 90% mail-in. This election cycle, two counties still had polling places, but that'll be phased out now and all of WA will be voting "absentee". Ugh.

[siloam]

or is the whole state mail in only? That sounds so weird, and I would hate losing that feeling of going to the polls on voting day.

 

 

I LOVE vote by mail. Much easier. I get to cozy up in my own chair with my pamphlet and work through everything at my own pace (usually several days). I ALWAYS felt rushed when we had to go to the polls, and there were always things that I missed and was trying to "catch up on" and make a quick decision.

 

Also no lines. If you are smart enough to get done early then you just drop it in the mail. If you don't you might wait in a bit of a line to drop it off, but I have never had them be too bad. Yesterday I ran down at 12:45 and it only took me about 5 mins to drop it off.

 

Heather (In Oregon where the whole state votes by mail.)

[kat19]

I didn't have to show my ID~I'm in Iowa.