I really wasn’t trying to be sarcastis. And I wasn’t specifically talking about “paper mail” either, but I realize it wasn’t clear as I mixed up 2020 with what I was really focused on.
I’m an engineer. Engineers design solutions to problems based on a set of requirements. What I was trying to say is, if a set of requirements was developed (which would address each of the concerns you listed and more) and that solution was “peer reviewed” to the hilt and put out for bid to the industry that develops government IT solutions (i.e. NOT the dopes who did the Obamacare website), I think you could have a secure 21st century voting system that would be highly protected against fraud and would ensure that every vote comes from a real, qualified, registered, live voter. And only one vote per customer! I would describe it more as an “next generating voting system” where if actual mailed-in paper ballots were part of it, they would have have to be authenticated in the same way as online votes would be. The other systems I listed are quite capable of identifying each of us, because it was a requirement of their design that they do so.
I’ve done work in the past in USPS facilities, which one colleague described as “the most cheerless place” he’d ever seen. So I know a little about why just doing “mail-in voting” like the Democraps want would be a disaster. I’m not suggesting that the USPS be used, except maybe as one of multiple input mechanisms that would still be subject to authentication and validation.
We designed systems to put man on the moon, rovers on Mars, and networks of completely reliable and secure communicatons - we can do this if we want to. But probably not before November unless a lot of work has been going on we don’t know about. So the only thing for 2020 is to stop the Democraps from pushing through a system that will be ripe for fraud and abuse and I trust President Trump has a way in mind to do this.
IMHO the best way is people go to polling places in person, after having registered in person, showing verifiable ID - preferably having been issued a specific voter ID card, and the people working in the polling places enter the info into a proper system, voting happens with paper ballots, voters get ink on finger. And honest people with honest people double checking are in charge at each polling place.
Sometimes more modern and high tech may not be the best way. I am 100% - nay, 188% - opposed to online voting.
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