First things first, I don’t doubt it is a bad thing, considering who supports it and who doesn’t.
But my question is what exactly is the issue and what is the current and proposed voting process when it comes to IDs?
Here in my EU country, you have to show some version of a government ID, be it an ID card, drivers license or passport. And we don’t have to pre-register to vote.
The (well, my state’s) website doesn’t ask about registering to vote with online address changes, I know that for sure because I’ve done that fairly recently.
But interesting, I’ve never been denied for a signature not matching and now I wonder why.
Here is where I agree in some way with your original statement. They must have had to relax the matching standard to account for the fact that people rarely sign their name anymore. Soon it won’t be a reasonable way to verify. So they will need something new. But it needs to be super low barrier. Whatever it ends up as, it will cause significant issues if they don’t grandfather existing voters to allow them to use signatures.