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It need not be a problem. The cards would be produced by the States. Moving to another State or voting district would require updating the card which would both add the new location and remove the old, perhaps maintained as history rather than deleted. The numbering would be unique Nationally.One small problem. The US Constitution does not give the federal government that authority. Unless a power is specifically granted to the federal government by the US Constitution the federal government does not have that power. The purpose of the US Constitution was to limit the power of the federal government. Not make it an all-power government entity that can do whatever it pleases without restraint.
Since the States are not prohibited from issuing a State ID by the US Constitution, the States have the constitutional authority to issue IDs, but the federal government does not. Which makes any notion of a "National ID" unconstitutional.
The whole "[e]very citizen is currently provided with a unique numbered Social Security card at birth" is a relatively new thing. I didn't obtain my Social Security account until I turned 14 and got my first paying job.
In 1997, when filing for Social Security, I had to list the locations where I had lived and worked since birth, and many other things I could only make estimates of, plus provide original documents of a number of things which were returned, except for my sons school ID card which got lost, but didn't want my Social Security card.
I got mine by filling out a form at the Post Office when I was 12.