"We want our politics to be like Israel," said Mosab Benkamaial, 25, referring to the Jewish state's melding of religious identity and electoral democracy.
Contrast this with National Savings which checks the electoral roll to confirm identity rather than asking people to send in original, sensitive, personal identification.
Such policies have been particularly harsh in Italy, where rightwing politicians have built their identity and electoral success on fear of foreigners.
This is the terrain on which left-of-centre parties have to forge new electoral strategies and political identities.
In the spring of 2008, as Obama was clinching the Democratic nomination for President, von Spakovsky issued a lengthy report on electoral fraud, titled "Stolen Identities, Stolen Votes".
But, according to Robert Manchin, former managing director of Gallup Europe, the trend is likely to be driven by changes in mobilisation techniques adopted by the country's main parties, and the emotional nature of electoral issues - such as identity - and urgency instilled in close races by both the Socialists and FIDESZ.
That broadly precludes electoral pitches predominantly based on identity, victimhood and nation.
By then, the interim district attorney could have an established identity, and an electoral edge.
Most Africans have no identity documents, so electoral rolls often need to be drafted from scratch for every poll.
Both Obama and [Bill] Clinton understood that playing identity politics in electoral politics is a disaster for the liberal side.
