<P> Similar to Germany, there is a national voters database and photo ID is required (identity card, passport or driving license). </P> <P> The registration office of each municipality in the Netherlands maintains a registration of all residents . Every eligible voter receives a personal polling notification by mail some weeks before the election, indicating the polling station of the voter's precinct . Voters must present their polling notification and a piece of photo ID (passport, identity card, or drivers license (a passport or ID is compulsory from the age of 14)). Such photo ID may be expired but not by more than five years . </P> <P> Voting in Norway is voluntary for citizens 18 years or older (16 in some municipalities). Every person who is eligible to vote are sent a polling card in the mail a while before the election . The polling card recommends the closest voting location to you, but you are not required to vote there, but you are required to vote within your municipality . The polling card contains the date (s) of the election, opening times of polling locations and information on how to vote . While it is not mandatory to bring the polling card on the day (s) of the election, it generally makes the process smoother . However, a photographic ID, such as a passport or a driver's license, is required to vote . During the election day after you pick your party, you present your photographic ID and optionally your poll card to the poll attendants who verifies the information against a database, and record that you have voted . </P> <P> In Swiss cantons (i.e. the subnational political level in Switzerland) that still use the Landsgemeinde or cantonal assembly; Historically, or in Appenzell until the admission of women, the only proof of citizenship necessary for men to enter the voting area was to show their ceremonial sword or Swiss military sidearm (bayonet); this gave proof that you were a freeman allowed to bear arms and to vote . Women, and men who choose to do so, may show their voting card instead . </P>

List of countries that require photo id to vote