Most states don't perform even non-strict, that's my point. Please stop thinking wrongly that non-strict states even attempt to validate your identity, they don't because people like Fskimospy DO NOT WANT THEM TO DO SO. In California poll workers are expressly prohibited from performing identity verification on anyone but first time voters.
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/vot...o/poll-worker-training-standards/section-one/
So they don't perform signature matching? Really?
The whole issue is a manifestation of right wing FUD, that we can't trust each other even a little bit, that our fellow Americans are unworthy of that. The contention is that Dems are more likely to engage in a non-existent activity than Repubs even though there's no evidence to support that. It's bullshit.
From a rational viewpoint, only partisan zealots would engage in such practice & Repubs seem to have an edge wrt partisan zealots. I'm more than willing to let the system as it is handle those problems because I don't think that such people exist in sufficient numbers to be significant. I trust the opposition at least that far & have the numbers to back that up.
Politicians who attempt to unreasonably restrict the electorate do not intend to accurately assess the will of the people but rather to win any way they can. They fear honest democracy.
You have to figure out if you're just as afraid of it as they are, or not.