I don't hold any truck with the flimsy excuse that any voting system is inherently open to tampering either of votes in transit or during counting - it's only possible because of the way successive actors have set up past voting systems (and either left avenues of fraud open or CREATED avenues of fraud to suit their own objectives.)
I think vote counting technology could be much better. You could even read the ballots without opening the envelope and leave a record of how a particular ballot was counted on the outside of the envelope. Thus if it was determined that a particular voter was not qualified to vote, you could recount and exclude that ballot. Leaving a forensic record would make it easier to correct errors and to prosecute fraud.
short of impeeding greatly on individual prvacy and requiring a palm and retina scan to vote, every other option is subject to fraud. and even that would require a secure computer system.
I believe once cheating has started and excepted by the side that is doing it, the only way to really stop it is basicly publicly executing every last one of them who do it...
100% voter ID
Minimal mail in ballots, only to those with a physician letter stating unable to make polling place or proof of being out of the area for early and election day voting ( like overseas)
NO or strictly limited day of voting registration with those ballots segregated till confirmed as valid.
indelible hand stamp when you vote,
paper ballots, marked by the voter.
Ballots tabulated locally, not transported around for tabulation. Results retained on paper ledgers, same security features as ballots.
Ballots with security freatures, numbered and sequenced like money.
Voter gets a printed receipt with his selections recorded on the reciept.
No computer touch screen, bar codes, QR codes or internet connections of voting machines.
In person voting—proper id—paper ballot. Each ballot should be scanned and three copies made. The three copies should be counted by different groups.
We should consider an amendment to the Constitution as well.
Blockchain would nearly eliminate fraud.
National requirement to expunge and delete all voter registration rolls and to re-register on a recurring timeline. Patriots won’t mind.
First we must fix the Voter Registration System.
When a person registers to vote in a county, they must provide proof of citizenship.
If a person is registered in another county or state, their prior registration is automatically removed.
If a registered voter dies, the person filling out the death certificate sends a copy to the place where the person is registered and their name is immediately removed.
There probably some other steps that need to be done, but the important thing is to clean up the voter registration rolls first.
I don’t see any election “changes” if Bitem/Ho get in.
With even 30% ‘Rat voters thinking there was massive 2020 fraud, there will be moves to fix things within the next 4 years.
If Trump continues with a 2nd term, election changes will leave the US with a more level playing field.
If it’s Bitem/Ho, they will also try to fix things. Except they actually will “fix” things leaving the US with a built-in vote-switching playing field.
a) paper ballots;
b) no electronic counting - no matter how good or what security it would be hacked or altered somehow at some tome - could never trust it;
c) voting only on election day;
d) no votes admitted after polls close;
e) votes counted at place where cast - no transporting to other places;
f) count to be completed within 24 hrs of poll closing;
g) all voters must present valid ID - no provisional or same day voting;
What would the ideal future setup of elections look like?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
VOTER ID or Citizenship Proof
Voting by paper ballot in person only.
Absentee Ballots require signature verification by human hand, not by machine scans set at 40% match.
Federal requirement that state voter rolls be annually purged of citizens who have no capacity to vote.
100% voter ID & purple fingers.
WHAT elections ?
easy fix: Florida-style rules for elections (following their debacle of 2000, they cleaned things up)
more fundamental fix: award Electors in selected states by the district method (the way Maine and Nebraska), so corrupt city machines can’t steal the entire state’s EVs.
consider: AZ, GA, MI, NH, NC, PA, WI; maybe also MN; provided we retain or gain control of them next year
IF WE HAD DONE THIS after 2010, we would have won in 2012 and since.
THERE WAS TALK OF DOING THIS BACK THEN, but no action.
In- person voting, with absentee ballots only available to active-duty military. One day voting on election day. Voter ID with a picture on it, has to be obtained in person only. Paper ballots only, with mechanical counting, not electronic, followed by one hand count. Automatic recounts afterward if it is close. Also, mandatory life sentences or the death penalty for election tampering. That might reduce cheating to a lower level than what we have now.
In-person voting, with ID, for those who can. Exceptions: civilian expatriates, military service members, and those who plan to be traveling. A section for each of those categories follows.
Ballots are printed not less than 90 days prior to an election, serial numbered, and the location of serial number series tracked from the printer to the counting facility (more on that later). Any break in the signature chain of custody at any time renders the effected group of ballots void and they are to be condemned, their destruction documented and witnessed. No ballot lacking a signature chain of custody will be valid.
At the voting precinct, one ballot is issued to each voter, in person, with ID, no exceptions, by at least one worker and one observer from each of the major parties. Smaller parties capable of providing observers will be permitted to do so and, when they cannot, will provide an affidavit, along with their application to have a candidate on the ballot, stating that they will abide in the integrity of the major party observers.
Once completed by the voter, a ballot is placed in a sealed (except for a slot for insertion, of course) under the eyes of at least one other poll worker and one observer from each of the major parties as above.
At 8:PM local time the doors to the polling location will be closed to entry and only those remaining in line inside the location will be permitted to continue voting. As soon as the last voter leaves the location, the sealed containers. will be further sealed as to their slots. Signature chain of custody, by observers from each of the major parties, will be maintained.
At no time will ballot boxes be placed in hidden portions of a vehicle (such as the trunk), or in any private vehicle.
The boxes will be transported in the passenger cabins of police vehicles to the counting facility. There, the observers from the precinct will, in person, with ID, and signature chain of custody, hand over the sealed boxes which will be hand carried to the counting table(s) assigned for that precinct.
Only when all boxes from the precinct are physically present and documented will counting proceed.
A counting table will be staffed with one supervisor, one counter, one relief counter, and one observer from each of the major parties and any smaller parties capable of providing them (see above). Supervisors will unseal, open, close, seal, and mark as complete each ballot box, and gather the counts. Counters and observers will sit opposite each other; relief counters will be on-call elsewhere in the facility out of view of the counting tables.
Silence is expected. Expressions of courtesy (”excuse me” etc.) are expected, and calls for relief either hourly or at biological need will be necessary. Discussion of the ballots, trends in the voting, etc are strictly forbidden, enforced by the supervisors.
One box at a time will be unsealed and opened in view of all persons at the table, who will sign off on having witnessed it. A supervisor, in view of everyone at the table, will move one ballot at a time from the box to the table. Each counter will tabulate, on a form provided, the votes of each ballot. Observers will observe, but not touch, the ballots. At the other end of the table a second box for counted ballots will be in the custody of the other supervisor.
When all of the ballots have been tabulated, the tabulations from each counter will be compared. If they differ in any way, the full box and empty box will be physically transposed and the process begun again. The discrepant tabulations will be destroyed on the spot in view of all at the counting table.
When a box has been successfully counted, it will be sealed and placed in a storage area in the facility under guard, the single entry under direct observation. No box is to be removed from this storage area until all the boxes have been counted, the results agreed upon and reported.
Table tabulations will be kept at each table under the eyes of the bi- or multi-partisan supervisors. When a table (corresponding to a voting precinct) is complete, the counters, and relief counters will be relieved and the table rendered visibly not in use (folding tables folded, for example). The supervisors and observers will tabulate the tabulations, producing a single tabulation, which will be attached to the counting forms and reported to the next level.
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Civilian expatriates apply to their home precincts to have ballots sent to embassies and consulates. Ballots completed at the embassies/consulates, in person, with ID. Ballots returned by fastest means with the sort of postal tracking and return receipts I use when shipping valuable ebay merch.
Military: organizational voting officers appointed to request voting materials from home districts of service members within the command, sent to the unit headquarters, completed under the supervision (NOT direct observation) of those officers, in person, with ID. As an Army veteran, I believe Battalion-level is correct, run out of the S-1 shop, but with the duty assigned from among the Lieutenants according to the Duty Officer Roster. Other services have different organizational sizes, but a single voting officer temporarily relieved of other duties can deal with this for 500 to 600 servicemembers in a 30 day period. Ballots returned to precincts under the same standards as the expatriate vote, above.
Persons in the US who are traveling must* include in their travel preparations a visit to their county courthouse within 60 days prior to the election to apply for ballot, which will be completed in person with ID.
Completed absentee ballots gathered from diplomatic, military, and local government locations will be carried to the counting facility and sealed in containers according to the voting precinct. Signature chain of custody for these materials will be maintained.
*Failing that, they are deemed to have voluntarily chosen not to vote.
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That’s as far as I’ve gotten, and I have other things to do on a Sunday morning.
Bests to all! And may God defend the right.
Voting should take a a concerted effort from the individual and it should only be allowed by tax paying citizens.
Punishment for fraud should be severe...one vote per legal citizen should be held sacred, assured recorded and able to be verified in person by every individual citizen.
Make the Presidential election day a National Holiday, requiring in-person voting.
100% ID required for in-person voting, that matches the DHS “no fly list” database.
When absentee ballot necessary — DHS produce all absentee ballots with right thumbprint area provided at the top of the page of each ballot sheet. All requests for absentee ballot must go to DHS, through USPS postcard with right thumbprint area provided. If thumbprint cannot be produced, a photo ID registration at local airport DHS office required.
DHS registers the voter, and registers the thumbprint from the USPS postcard.
All absentee ballots - with thumbprint included, must match the DHS database registration.
All absentee ballots must be mailed within 3 business days AFTER the final Presidential debate.
All voting machines must meet standards set by DHS and FEC — and approved by leadership of both parties in the Senate.
5 political parties and nothing to impede any of them from winning. As long as we’re in this 2 party system elections are a formality and don’t actually matter. We’re just deciding whose turn it is to tell which lies. Break up toe duopoly
“Future elections”
That’s funny.