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Actually, that's not true. The Federal voter registration form doesn't require the filer to produce any ID to file it. It does, however, require you to attest (under penalty of perjury) that you are a citizen. And since you have also given them your full name and address where you live, they can find you easily enough. (You could lie about your address, I suppose, but then you would be voting in the wrong place....)
Republicans have used this as an excuse to say that the entire system encourages fraud, and that there must be oodles of people lying on the forms. (I guess because dishonesty comes so easily to them?). Some Republican states with strict voter ID laws go so far as to require that if a voter sends in the Federal form (which the State must accept), that voter will only be allowed to vote in Federal elections, and can't vote for state or local offices until they register a second time with their ID.
But trying to fraudulently vote as a non-citizen is the stupidest type of fraud. Each registration comes with an invitation for the government to investigate your background and prosecute if you are lying, complete with all of your identifying information. And for what benefit? Getting to cast a single vote that (in nearly all cases) won't affect the outcome by itself?
Republicans' reasoning for strict voter ID laws simply don't stand up to any rational analysis, unless you realize their real goal is to disenfranchise people who can't afford to (or can't manage to keep) their ID. What if a homeless person, who is a US citizen but can't afford their ID, wants to vote. Should they be deemed ineligible simply because they don't have their long-form birth certificate on their person?
Great insight, and thanks for the correction.