Nobody wants to hear it, and you’ll get called every name in the book if you defend the idea on the main forum, but a form of electronic (online) or mail-in voting could be the best way to end vote fraud and prevent cheating. IF it was done properly.
Look, no one has trouble with their income tax payments not being credited, or being sent two refund checks or tax bills. That’s because taxes are important and are taken seriously with a robust collection system. The same is true for online banking and many other transactions. The technology exists and could be applied to voting. Some will claim “it’s different” and “it’s an invitation to cheat” but those are technical problems for which technical solutions exist. This what engineers do. So the first thing is, such a system could not be designed by the government, it must be done by the private sector. And to prevent them from colluding, multiple overlapping projects with full oversight would be used, so no one company or team could have full knowledge of how the system works, only their part.
We can’t control cheating the way it is. How can anyone flat-out say a fully encrypted authenticated electronic voting system would be worse without proof? Unless they are cyber security experts, I don’t care about what they think.
What’s so evil about ballot harvesting is ot’s so difficult to catch,
Ballots get mailed out. DNC workers snag the boxes of ballots directly from transit to the post office or at the post office. Then take the ballots to DNC office, mark them and turn them in as legitimate votes. Only takes one corrupt postal worker to pull off.
California has a law that allows anybody to turn in votes. In 2018 there were 8 House races that flipped real late in the count when boxes of ballots were counted. After the results were annouced it’s too late to do anything about it
The governors race in Kentucky smelled like ballot harvesting Bevin made passing comments about it, but too little too late. Only AUTHORIZED people should be able to turn in ballots, like a power of attorney.
In Cincinnati in 2008, we had a poll worker freely admit she cast 8 votes for Obama. A poll worker. Lol.
Save the ballots after counting, with a unique numbered stamp applied to each ballot from each precinct as it is counted.