UN election observers surprised no one needs an ID to vote in most states...

The UN observers claim such a system of trust wouldn’t work in their country.  Newsflash, it doesn’t work here.

“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.