One step at the time. Mail in ballots need to be eliminated. Voting machines need to be eliminated.
Well, if mail in ballots are eliminated, my elderly mother won’t be able to vote.
More like, universal no-excuse mail-in ballots need to be eliminated.
“Mail in ballots need to be eliminated.”
Nope. There are legitimate cases where this is the only option that does not disenfranchise some voters.
Rather than eliminate them in a ham-fisted stroke of bad government, institute stringent controls on them.
No matter what else you do, purge the voter rolls after EVERY election to force the voter information to always be less than 18-24 months old.
REQUIRE that mail-in absentee ballots be mailed out to voters ONLY at the voter’s request. Institute a verification step: perhaps a signature card mailed out to the requestor that has to be signed and returned to affirm that the ballot was legitimately requested. Compare signatures on cards received from the same address to ensure against a single person “pencil whipping” fake signatures for multiple persons.
EXPONENTIATE the legal penalties for fraud; no fine should be less than five figures FOR EACH OFFENSE, and prison terms should BEGIN at five years with concurrent service for multiple offenses EXPRESSLY DENIED.
If we were REALLY serious, there’s a whole undiscovered country full of steps we could take to harden elections against fraud. Frankly, I wouldn’t be against hanging a few perps publicly to get the f’n point across.
YMMV.