Some of them don't even have a bank account. I think that is a rather small universe. But I am willing to make explicit what I believe is already in the law--staff on the majority side has assured us it is already in the law--that money can be used. But I will be happy to make it explicit. If you have Joe or Jane Doe, who do not have any of those things, we should be providing the money to the registration authority to give them a card or to ascertain their registration and get them registered. If they don't have any of those items, they ought to have a chance to be registered. We ought to identify them. The Carter-Ford commission says one should have an identifying number. That would help us a lot. Carter-Ford pointed out that, No. 1, signature verification doesn't work--and I can assure you, it doesn't work from our side, from what we have seen in Missouri. Those are the outlines that I think would work.
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Discussing voter registration and identification requirements.
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