‘America’s voting system is a disgrace’

David Frum is upset because we don’t have a voting system run by the national government, but rely on individual states to make the rules. He is right – we are not France or Germany or Britain.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/05/opinion/frum-election-chaos/

Here is Frum’s idea of solving a problem: “Americans worry more about voter fraud than do voters in other countries, because they are the only country without a reliable system of national identification.”

“(A) reliable system of national identification.” Diane Sawyer a couple of years back lamented that the United States does not have a national system for licensing drivers, ending her complaint with “if you can believe that.”

Yes, Diane, I can believe that.

Here is something most (we’ll say) liberals (because conservatives know better) don’t understand: We do not want a system of national identification.

Let me restate: We, The People, do not want the Federal government spending time and money and creating another bureaucracy to establish and maintain a national identity system with which the same government would keep more invasive records on where we are and what we do.

Why is that so hard to understand?