[yesthatjallen]

I’m skeptical. They’ve had many months to rifle through the ballot boxes and cull the ones that don’t support their Big Lie. I fear we’ll be the ones eating crow.

Here are a few of my suggestions to secure ballots in future elections:

* Ballot paper should be produced with security features such as a watermark, embossed, or embedded strips as found in our currency. Ballot paper can be manufactured with ultra-violet dyes during manufacture.

* Every paper ballot must be *PRE-PRINTED* (not printed at polling locations on desktop printers) and tracked and accounted for from manufacturing to being counted.

* Every paper ballot should be printed on a paper size that cannot be purchased at Office Max or other off-the-shelf suppliers. NO paper ballot should be able to be printed on a home or officer desktop printer.

* Every paper ballot should be printed with a bar code or QR code so it can be identified as unique and scanned only once. If paper ballots are scanned by optical readers it is simple and cheap to add unique optical-scan security features.

* Every paper ballot should be printed with consecutive numbers or a random alogarithm code which is verified when scanned.

* The number of ballots printed must match the number of registered voters. 10% can be printed to accommodate a surge in provisional voting or damaged paper ballots. All damaged ballots must be retained.

* Every paper ballot should be easily visually identified as a mail-in or in-person by color code and security number.

Please feel free to debate the merits of each.

[Publius]

Or we can go back to the world that existed before the Progressives gave us the secret ballot.

You go down to your voting precinct and declare proudly for whom you are voting. The clerk marks the tally sheet, and supporters of the people for whom you've voted give you a glass of beer, wine, cider or a concoction called "punch."

It was how we did things at the time of the Founding.

[MayflowerMadam]

They’re all good ideas.

When I ran elections in the ‘80s we had good ol’ IBM punch cards. They had their problems, like in the Gore-Bush election, but overall they sure were safer. It’s hard to “phony-up” a punch card. When I heard elections people were printing up ballots on a desktop printer, I gasped. (What could possibly go wrong?!)

[griswold3]

Good post. We have to get to the bottom of November 3, 2020 before we can move forward. It won’t change any outcome, but we need the truth.