I mean this has been the argument for my entire 55 9/10 life: poor rural ancient people don’t have ID.
Roughly 70–90% of the world’s voting jurisdictions require some form of ID to vote. A widely cited dataset found about 176 countries or jurisdictions with ID requirements as of 2021. With ~195 sovereign countries globally, that works out to around 90% requiring identification—though strict photo ID laws are a smaller subset of that total.
I guess this is the end of the road in terms of that. We live in a very modern world and most of the world requires ID in order to vote.
