Voter ID And The Good Old Days

There's a lot of squawking going on about getting back to the early days of this country. A time many think our country's principles have drifted away from. Let's talk about one of these... who can and cannot vote.In 1790 only white males who owned property could vote.
It wasn't until 1810 the last religious prerequisite for voting was eliminated.
By 1850 the property ownership requirement was dropped (but still only white men could vote),
In 1870 black men were then allowed to vote.
Up until 1913 Senate members were elected by state legislators.
Finally in 1920 women were allowed to vote.
Some states required a poll tax be paid in federal elections up until 1964.
Some states required a literacy test. By 1965 this was eliminated by federal law.Amazingly there are a handful of conservatives today who have spoken of getting back to requiring literacy tests. Some conservatives even spoke of going back to property ownership. Both democrats and republicans think gerrymandering voting areas is a swell idea. Democrats in particular on the other hand would prefer a free-for-all. In several states voters can cross party lines in the primaries to vote for jerks hoping their own party's candidate can then win against them in fall elections.

As you can see there is little uniformity from state to state. Thus voter laws can vary greatly from state to state. Is this anyway to run a national election for president? I think not.

As we look back upon history there's no good reason to go back to the "good old days". They weren't that great. Voter ID is yet another attempt to manipulate election outcomes. So is the lack of having one.

What I Suggest (It'll never happen)
(1) Everyone be issued a voter ID card by the United States government (not by each individual state).
(2) Each state agrees to the same rules. (Example: No one can cross party lines in the primaries).
(3) Gerrymandering be eliminated strictly determined by population shifts via the census bureau.
(4) Everyone votes on the same day and hours. Same goes for absentee ballots & early voting.

There's simply too much gaming the system from state to state when it comes to national elections. There's those who'd have us go back to the bad old days in certain states who refuse to compromise on uniformity. Liberals are way too loose when it comes to voting. Why not a national voter database instead of a state by state? Conservatives on the other hand are accusing liberals of voting multiple times or are ineligible.

A single national database easily linked by computer lookups solves all of these. No duplicate votes. No ineligible voters. Every voter is treated exactly the same no matter which state they are voting in.

Of course states that consider themselves rogue nations apart from Washington, D.C. will never agree to this. Mostly those states fall into the camp of conservatives. In states liberals exist they resist anything that even smells of voter suppression even if it means there's a few who slip by the portals at the voting booths.

We now have the technology to do this. What we don't have is either side's willingness to do this. Each want to game the system to their own advantage. Today is not the time to go backwards in history. Rather it's time to move forward as a nation of each individual deserving one vote as was intended. We have the technology, what we don't have is a consensus. That has been a problem for as long as this country has existed. Isn't it about time we set our differences aside and unite ourselves for once... and for all?