OFFICIAL DAILY ACTION FOR Monday, October 13, 2025

Comment on the Election Assistance Commission proposal re ID & voting (due October 20th)

The Election Assistance Commission is considering a proposal that would require a passport or Real ID-compliant driver’s license for citizens to cast a vote. This act make voting difficult for ordinary Americans. Working parents, rural residents, seniors, married women who changed their name, anyone in the middle of restoring lost or stolen documentation. This act is supposed to deter “voter fraud”. The reality is that cases of voter impersonation are extremely rare. The total number of cases compared to votes case from 2000-2024 is under 0.0001%.

To put some perspective on it, 250 million containers are shipped every year, with lost containers being about 1,150 annually. If the percent of lost containers equaled the percent of fraud cases, the shipping industry would lose about 250 annually.

This proposal is a burdensome and unnecessary step to prevent miniscule amounts of fraud.

ACTION: Enter your comments at https://www.regulations.gov/document/EAC-2025-0236-0001/comment

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I am writing to express strong opposition to the proposal that would require a passport or Real ID–compliant driver’s license to vote. If adopted, this proposal would unfairly burden millions of ordinary Americans — especially working parents, rural residents, and seniors — by tying their constitutional right to vote to costly, time-consuming, and often inaccessible documentation. This proposal will make it difficult for married women who changed their last name. Rural Americans may live long distances from the DMV or passport office. Many cannot afford to take time off from work to navigate the necessary bureaucracies. Older Americans who no longer drive, or live on fixed incomes, would be especially hard hit. Many people lose their driver’s license due to theft, natural disaster, or misplacement. Replacing documents can take weeks or months. Under this proposal, a person who lost their wallet right before Election Day could lose their right to vote entirely. That is not a reasonable or democratic outcome.

States already have safeguards when people register to vote. All new registrants must swear to citizenship, under penalty of perjury. And states cross-check registration data against data from various federal and state agencies, looking for red flags. These safeguards work! Contrary to rumor, voter lists are NOT full of undocumented people who are trying to illegally cast a ballot. If we start requiring people to provide proof of citizenship when registering, many citizens, including married women whose last names have changed, and college students who have left their birth certificates/passports with their parents, will be disenfranchised. The proposal is anti-democratic and Un-American and will do little to improve election security. Study after study demonstrates that voter fraud is a miniscule percent of votes case – less than 0.0001%!

If the goal is to strengthen election integrity without disenfranchising voters:
a. Allow voters who lack ID to sign a sworn affidavit under penalty of law, as many states already do successfully.
b. Improve poll worker training and chain-of-custody procedures to ensure accurate, transparent ballot handling.
c. Conduct routine post-election audits to verify results and build public confidence.
d. Modernize and secure voter registration databases to reduce clerical errors and prevent duplicate registrations.
e. Increase outreach to rural and elderly voters to ensure they understand existing ID rules and can access assistance if needed.

Voting is a right guaranteed by the Constitution. Voting is not a privilege reserved for those with money, time, or easy access to government offices.

Strict ID requirements solve a problem that barely exists, while creating barriers that affect real people every election cycle.

For these reasons, I respectfully urge you to reject this proposal and pursue policies that protect both the integrity of our elections and the accessibility of the ballot for all lawful voters.

Thank you for considering this comment.

BACKGROUND:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1139763/number-votes-cast-us-presidential-elections
https://electionfraud.heritage.org/
https://electioninnovation.org/research/noncitizen-analysis/
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/nx-s1-5147732/voter-fraud-explainer
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-widespread-is-election-fraud-in-the-united-states-not-very/
https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/analysis/Briefing_Memo_Debunking_Voter_Fraud_Myth.pdf

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