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Registration done right
Political Animal — ... questions about fraud. Generally, Republicans have been the ones most resistant to these reforms, driven by the belief that if more people are registered and able to participate in the process, Democrats will win more elections. But this is the kind of reform event the GOP can love -- a national voter registration system ends ACORN registration drives and ends legal fights with secretaries of state. It's no brainer for the next president, regardless of party. Post Script : Kevin goes a little further , recommending a national ID card and ending the registration process ...

National ID
Matthew Yglesias — ... For whatever reason, nobody’s supposed to say this, but I have to agree with Kevin Drum that implementing a National ID Card system would help solve a lot of problems at what looks to me to be an extremely low cost in civil liberties. It’s absolutely nutty that the country’s chosen to embrace all sorts of serious curtailments of said liberties, often for little-to-know gain in security, while still eschewing a relatively simple measure that could be genuinely useful in a variety of contexts. ...

On a National ID: It Depends
The American Scene — Matt Yglesias is for a national ID card?!?! Nooooooooo! Wait. So he’s with Kevin Drum. And Drum writes: I’d go even further: implement a national ID and give one to everybody, free of charge. You get it when you turn 18 (or whatever), and you get a free update every five years (or whatever). Post offices would handle most of the work, and roving mobile vans would trek through rural areas periodically to make sure everyone has easy access to whichever federal agency is tasked with providing the cards. Instead of simply ...