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POPSBetter Elections Through Biometrics? Curtis Gans, director of American University’s Center for the Study of the American Electorate, writes today in Roll Call that biometric (the measurement of physical characteristics, such as fingerprints, DNA, or retinal patterns, for identifying individuals) ID cards could take care of both voter fraud and voter suppression. As for privacy concerns, he argues "privacy in America was largely lost when an individual’s Social Security number became an identifier for purposes beyond Social Security," among other phenomena (the Internet, post-9/11 surveillance."
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