That’s how I see it. We will go one of two ways:
1) Democrats steal the election through voter fraud and end the country, making sure they never lose power again.
2) We watch for the fraud, detect the fraud, prevent the fraud, and go forward with voter ID and other steps to ensure honest elections in the future.
2020 is the year we decide which path to walk.
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.