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1) There should be no early voting, period.

2) Applications for absentee ballots should be required to be signed by three witnesses to the reason why an absentee ballot is warranted. In the case of surgery, these witnesses can be the surgeon, his nurse, and his scheduler. In the case of a mandatory and necessary business trip, the signatories can be the traveling employee’s boss, his boss, and that person’s boss, etc.

3) Allow people to take a $100 credit on their income taxes for volunteering to be a poll watcher.

4) Mandate that employers give employees 4 hours flex time off on election day, which they can require to be made up or PTO taken.

5) Allow certain types of workers, such as fireman, on-call doctors, etc. to go to front of the line at elections.

6) Put a donation check off box on federal income tax forms to allow people to donate to a fund to combat vote fraud.

7) Move election day to the weekend.

8) Allocate money from the vote fraud fund to states based on population and demand states investigate vote fraud and show that they have prosecuted people. Part of this investigation should include random selection of absentee ballot petitions where the three signatories were contacted and verified.

I like early voting. In nearly 25 years at my current address, I have voted at my regular polling place (in an inconvenient location several miles from my house) maybe twice. I could see reducing the number of days for early voting to a week or even less but I would not like to see it eliminated entirely.

I early-voted this year and the man I voted for has not dropped out.

Nothing fancy is needed here. The heart of true conservatism resides in our past, when things worked because they were simple. 1.) Go to your polling place on election day. That's singular, not plural as in days. 2.) Cast your ballot. (Also singular, but that goes without saying.) This means that something like a piece of paper has recorded your vote. Put the ballot in a locked box. 3.) If unable to cast your ballot in person, file an absentee ballot.

In the past, and I am not "that" old, I voted on paper ballot - with a pencil. After polls were closed, the locked ballot box was then driven to the county seat, some 30 miles away, and counted. We knew the winner of elections by the 11 o'clock news.