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Absolutely. That's why I stopped validating passwords and emails. Nobody votes with their wallets anyway, so I don't have to worry about losing customers, and regulations only go after the evil hacker testing whether 1234 might work as a password, not me for choosing not to check its hash against my database. Law-abiding citizens would never try to impersonate one another, so I'm sure fraud on my platform is low.