Looking for Voter Fraud (In Old Elections) with Data Visualization

> In the 2008 financial crisis (and now again) the government paid part of workers’ wages to save jobs (Kurzarbeit)

Trump went even further and sent checks directly to every taxpayer.

> She stopped mandatory military service

US got rid of the draft in 1973 under Nixon

> Germany is getting out of nuclear power by 2022 > Germany is getting out of coal power by 2038

Neither is the business of the federal government in the US but instead of the states themselves, on top of that this is done in Germany by importing exactly that power from other European neighbours, an option the US does not have.

> She ran a balanced budget

That is considered as on the right in the US

> Legalized gay marriage

The US had that first nationwide, and individual states had it much earlier. On top of that, Merkel voted against that law in the German parliament (Bundestag)

> Accepted a large number of refugees from war-torn Syria

Since Syria is closer to Europe than to the US this is not surprising, the US accepts asylum from middle and south America instead.

> Cut taxes (Solidaritätszuschlag) for the working class and middle class, while keeping them in place for the upper class

Sounds like the tax reform of 2017

> If you did one of these things in the US, you would be considered a progressive leftist. Doing all of them would make you a radical. In Germany she is still considered center-right.

-> While this is a nice visualization, the author had no idea about US politics and how it contrasts to German politics

That surprised me (I don't have an ID card here in Australia, nor did I in the UK), so I looked it up :

"A number of countries do not have national identity cards. These include Andorra, Australia, the Bahamas, Canada, Denmark, India, Japan, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Norway, Palau, Samoa, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, the United Kingdom and Uzbekistan. Other identity documents such as passports or driver's licenses are then used as identity documents when needed. However, governments of Kiribati, Norway, Samoa and Uzbekistan are planning to introduce new national identity cards in the near future. Some of these, e.g. Denmark, have more simple official identity cards, which do not match the security and level of acceptance of a national identity card, used by people without driver's licenses.

A number of countries have voluntary identity card schemes. These include Austria, Belize, Finland, France, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Saint Lucia, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_document#National_pol...

p.s. I don't have a passport, driver's licence, mobile phone, or credit cards but still manage OK for ID :-)

If you can't go to the doctor, can't buy products in stores that have an 18+ requirement, can't vote, can't drive, can't travel, can't buy a train or buss ticket, can't get social security unless you fight with bureaucracy for several years and still likely loose, can't have an bank account, can't buy a card at a swim/gym, well, home much of a voluntary scheme is that? I guess there is voluntary, and then there is voluntary. In a similar way its voluntary to have an bank account but you can't pay rent, get social security money, get paid (by most companies), buy products in what seems to be the majority of stores, or travel by buss/train/plane unless you got a bank account. It is voluntary in terms that you will not end up in jail if you don't have it, but living without is made extremely difficult.

It is interesting that in UK, the requirement for ID card during elections depend on where you live. Northern Ireland must have it, while England, Wales or Scotland do not require it.

Going back to the Scandinavian countries, Norway which do not have an national identity cards do still require a photo ID when voting. Instead of a national id card they use their passport, driver license or banking ID, in which case one of those serve the purpose of authentication.