Stunned to find no ID required

I WAS dismayed to find that no identification was required to vote at my polling place. I approached someone with a tag that said "inspector," and asked what prevented me from coming back and voting in place of someone I knew was not going to vote - my own mother, for example. The woman said she would recognize me. Considering that there were hundreds of people at 7 a.m., and that she looked to be in her 70s, I doubt it. But I did not argue. I asked if she would be there all day, and her reply was that they changed shift at 2. So, I asked, what would prevent me from coming back after 2? She said that if the real person came in later, someone would get into trouble.

Well, I know my mother decided not to vote, and I would have loved to vote in her place, since we are not on the same side politically. I did not do it.

But I am left with a bitter taste in my mouth, because here we are in the United States, and there are no safeguards against fraud, corruption, and cheating on a presidential election that might be the most important in the history of our country.

VERONICA B. MORRA
Marlborough