A few months ago I wrote a blog about the arrogance of the Obama administration when it comes to national health care. I wrote about how he, by refusing to learn by Europe's experiment with national health care, showed himself to be the kind of 'arrogant American' that is supposedly despised the world over.
Well, here we are again. Seems like the rest of the world uses some form of voter ID. According to the article below, we are about the only country that doesn't require some form of voter ID.
If the libs are so anxious to be like the rest of the world, I say start with voter ID laws. I would be happy to have my finger inked the next time I vote. How about you?
Foreign election officials amazed by trust-based U.S. voting system By Josh Rogin 
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
For the head of Libya's national election commission, the method by which Americans vote is startling in that it depends so much on trust and the good faith of election officials and voters alike.
"It's an incredible system," said Nuri K. Elabbar, who traveled to the United States along with election officials from more than 60 countries to observe today's presidential elections as part of a program run by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES). Your humble Cable guy visited polling places with some of the international officials this morning. Most of them agreed that in their countries, such an open voting system simply would not work.
"It's very difficult to transfer this system as it is to any other country.This system is built according to trust and this trust needs a lot of procedures and a lot of education for other countries to adopt it," Elabbar said.
The most often noted difference between American elections among the visitors was that in most U.S. states, voters need no identification. Voters can also vote by mail, sometimes online, and there's often no way to know if one person has voted several times under different names, unlike in some Arab countries, where voters ink their fingers when casting their ballots.
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