elections have stayed safe because they are distributed and local. ( it takes concerted effort to rig more than a district or two. and barring bush v gore, you pretty much have to go back to tamney hall. ) centralized voting is the antithesis of this.
the only really good argument ive heard against this so far is in regards to mail in voting, if only because it broadens voter participation.
states where voter rolls are used to deny voting - re: flordia purging voters based on name matches with texas felons - are the closest thing we have to centralized voting ids, and it’s terrible. same day registration, even if it needs provisional ballots to make angry white people happy, is key to getting good voter turnout. an id that people have to keep track of, keep private, and keep updated is just one more barrier to entry.
in person paper ballots and voting by mail are not broken. let’s not try to fix them.
