[tricolon]

Not everyone can vote or is registered to vote.

[everybodyknows]

That's a fair point -- justice would require admitting alternate forms of evidence of residence. Maybe receipts from over-the-counter credit card transactions at local businesses could serve.

[peterlk]

Yeah, perhaps alternatives like permanent address on a government issued ID would be better. But exceptional circumstances should be the exception; the more exceptions are made, the more loopholes creep in

[gottorf]

For the purposes of shaping public policy, shouldn't the focus be on those who can vote? They comprise the body politic, after all.