But in response to KG's point about voting "should be difficult" (paraphrase), I see no philosophical or historical record in the founding of this county that voting should be difficult.  The ballot box and a single voting day were the rule of the day in the 1800s and on because that was the only practical technology and rule/process system.  There wasn't even mail until the mid-1800s, let alone a postal system. Travel was difficult. Why shouldn't we use technology and progress to make it easier?  That is a fundamental question, actually, worthy of serious cross-partisan discussion.

As Amash later points out, I too have no issue with e-mail or fax applications to make the process easier --- but not in isolation of implementing security with those technologies.  The Democrats want to have both sides of this issue - where Republicans should take the stand is on the identification part, and say we'll say yes to one if Democrats say yes to the other.  That's what was missing in this debate.