And how do we change the way the votes are counted when the people who control how the votes are counted like the way the votes are counted?
We had a chance to fix it. No more.
First, change the way they are cast:
* Require Voter ID to register
* Require same Voter ID to vote
* Require a reading test to register - I had to!
* Registration expires 2 years after your last vote, then you register per current voter registration laws.
Then,
* Limit early voting
* Smaller (neighborhood) polling places
* Limit absentee voting to people who will be absent from their polling place.
* Stop email voting
* Stop same day registration (really? You had no idea that there was an election coming up?)
* Laugh all you want, but I have no problem with dipping my finger in a bottle of ink to show that I voted.
* Separate ballots and lines for Federal and local/state ballots.
* No ‘pollsters’ with 500 feet of a polling place.
That would cut down on the number of ballots cast. THEN you can start on how they are counted.
* Have one party count all ballots, then the other until the counts match. Any that are ‘vague’ should be tossed. If you can’t be bothered to fill out a ballot in a manner that leaves no doubt as to your vote then you shouldn’t be voting.
* Anyone that is suspect during the voting process should be checked and approved by both parties.
* Anyone voting falsely should be severely punished, not just fined and sent home.
* Military voting should be counted by the military and the count turned in like any other polling place.
* Early and absentee ballots are opened and counted on election day.
As far as I am concerned this is common sense stuff, nothing discriminatory or demeaning about it.