The government wants to disarm us after 245 yrs 'cuz theyNully's modest proposal to end voter fraud:
- Paper ballots (zeugma adds) with human readable marks. They may be computer generated, and/or computer counted, but there must be an audit trail of each vote. H/T zeugma
- All systems using computerized counting must have open source software, two fully separate and independent companies provide redundant, crowd source vetted, software. Counting is done on two separate systems and cross-checked.
- Manual counting and loading paper ballots into counting machines must be live streamed from multiple cameras, with interlocking fields of view, on independent connections.
- Every ballot run through a machine scanner MUST have a date/time stamp applied at scanning, the scanner shall verify that no ballot is being counted twice. In the event of a recount, where a block of questionable ballots were run, those ballots can be sequestered and forensically evaluated for fraud, and identifying fingerprints and DNA evidence.
- Purple fingers (needs something to prevent an absentee voter/early voter from re-voting at the poll, maybe blockchain, also maybe a mugshot showing the voter an the photo ID taken at sign in?) H/T for-q-clinton
- Mandatory free on demand BIOMETRIC (iris scan, nobody ever left their irises at a crime scene!) photo voter ID card, with a database that instantly flags for arrest anyone seeking multiple IDs. Change of name or address? Simply have your old card voided when you apply for the new one.
- No precinct reports their totals until ALL precincts report they have totals. This prevents the last-to-report precinct captains from knowing how much to fudge a report to give a win to their preferred candidate while maintaining some slight semblance of credibility.
- Repeal Motor Voter.
- End same-day registration where it exists, and allow ample time between registration and election for vetting of credentials of registrants.
- Instantly deport any non-citizen who registers to vote. Permanently ban from re-entry any non-citizen who actually votes.
- All voter rolls are automatically and completely purged ten days after the Presidential Inauguration. Reregistering to vote every four years is not an imposition, unless you are dead, of course! H/T The Chid
- Put a little ⩍ next to the names of those registered voters with death certificates, and detain and put a 72 hour psychiatric hold on anyone claiming to be a dead person...
- With the exception of absentee ballots, end early voting. Every voter deserves and has a responsibility to know the latest information before they cast their ballots. H/T WildHighlander57
- Absentee ballots must be vetted and counted 10 days before the polling date, with the results secured and embargoed until close of polls the date of the vote. H/T octex
Mexico has voter ID cards required to vote, and when you vote, they punch a hole in your card to prevent multiple votes in the same election.
I don't know if you get a 10% discount after you've accumulated enough punched holes…
Of course, all this would only apply to Federal elections, for federal offices, as that is the legitimate concern of the federal government.
Let the states who have local authority use whatever system they wish to force the elections of their favorite sons and daughters to alderman, mayor or goobernor. They can do it the cheap way, by just following the federal rules for all voting, or they can have separate ballots for local and federal. Their call. It's a free country, ain't it?
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
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open source software means nothing... as the binaries, the generated executable programs produced by compiling the source, aren’t necessarily the ones running on the machines.
whatever the software, if it were to push ballot images to a public blockchain of ballots as the ballots are submitted, tagged with various meta data, it’d be difficult to fudge and be able to verify ballot integrity online.
MY solution:
1. Each ballot must have a unique serial number, both human and machine readable, like the number on your checks.
2. Each County Supervisor of Elections office will maintain a Master List of ballot serial numbers, and note when they were mailed out, transported to which precincts, damaged, soiled or otherwise destroyed.
3. Each machine’s software will have access to the Master List of serial numbers and will check off the number as they are counted and DUPLICATES WILL BE LOGGED AND REJECTED.
4. Each person using a counting machine will have a unique key or password to use that machine, and only that machine.