We already do. It’s called registration.

In order to vote you must

• be a US citizen
• be 18 years of age at the date of election
• meet all of your state’s requirements.

North Dakota is the only state that does not require registration before an election but citizenship is checked at the time of voting via their participation in the REAL ID program.

All states have their own laws regulating registration requirements but they must verify your citizenship in some form during the registration process in order to meet federal guidelines. That could include passports, naturalization papers, birth certificates, drivers licenses, marriage licenses (as supporting documents), various tribal documents of identity. Somewhere along the process, these documents must be presented before you vote.

The decision of how to handle verification is up to states, as it should be, to handle the needs of their populations, and to fit the workload of managing the vote into their existing infrastructure as fairly, consistently, and efficiently as possible.

As you can see, this idea of massive voter fraud just doesn’t hold up. One would have to bypass voter checks in 50+ different states (territories) that are run by 50+ different commissions 50+ different ways in order to be successful. It’s just not reasonably likely.

As for China… ??? or other foreign influence…

They’re not going to be able to affect the actual physical vote. Sooner or later, the numbers won’t match up. You think the vote proctors in Podunkville, North Dakota won’t notice a very long line of oriental-looking folk that weren’t in the community last week? Just how in your mind is China going to pull this off? Russians and Iranians are physically distinct too, compared against normal population trends. Someone will notice and sound the alarm. Similarly, a hack of the voting machines will also quickly be found and rectified once things fail to match up. So we can feel pretty confident that the physical vote, including mail in ballots are secure. Any tampering will be found and dealt with in short order, regardless of what Fox news, CNN, or MSNBC say.