Yea I saw that. There is a lot of truth in it but also some hyperbole. Voter roles need to be flushed and people should be asked to re-register with proof of citizenship in the entire country. Not going to happen.
>>Voter rolls need to be flushed and people should be asked to re-register with proof of citizenship in the entire country. Not going to happen.<<
Why not? Candidate Vaughn came up with an obvious way to verify names and addresses. Just mail a personal (certified would be better) letter to every registered voter in the country. If it comes back as undeliverable, remove the name from the voting roll.
Once it was verified that a person actually lived at a particular address, cross check the list with social security numbers. Social Security maintains updated addresses of every citizen in the country, as well as their ages. If a person isn’t on the SS list as a U.S. citizen living at that address, remove them from the voting roll.
Anyone removed by mistake can cast a provisional ballot, or check to see they’re actually registered prior to the vote. If they vote early, they’ll be told they have to register first, and prove they live in the district, and that their address will be verified by checking with Social Security. If they just moved, they can again cast a provisional ballot and told to immediately update SS, which they should do anyway.
All of this could be made federal law, at least for federal elections.
1. Mandate the personal, certified, mailing to everyone registered.
2. Purge the rolls of the names that are undeliverable.
3. Verify that those on the rolls after the initial purge are in the SS database as living at that address, are citizens, and are of age to vote.
4. Purge the rolls of those who are ferreted out by step 3.
5. Permit provisional ballots for all who’ve been purged who still claim to be citizens residing at a permanent address in the district.
Problem solved, with a federal law for federal elections, but it would pretty much solve the problem at the state level too, since states would be using the same registration rolls.
One more thought: The post office already maintains the list of names and addresses. It’s all computerized now. They wouldn’t even have to mail the letters, which would be both cheaper and quicker. So first compare voter registration rolls with PO addresses, purge rolls, then compare the updated rolls with SS addresses, citizenship, age, and purge the rolls again—problem solved. And CA would probably lose about 20% of their voters...