[Wayne Maybury]

I also read the entire post and found it fascinating and very disturbing. However, in the past 30 or 40 years there have been more communist / socialist countries than there have been democracies to fall / fail. The entire USSR is gone.

What kind of proof or identification is required when voting in an American election? In the upcoming Canadian federal election, we require a valid form of identification (passpost, driver's licence, medicare card, etc) or the person can swear an oath that must be witnessed by another person with proper valid identification and who must be registered to vote in the same poll. This does leave some room for fraud but it certainly makes it much more difficult.

Wayne