Posted on 12/23/2020 10:18:40 AM PST by asinclair
The Democrats will raise the cry "Voter Supression!" every time any attempt is made to enforce the idea of Voter ID where the voter has to obtain picture ID from DMV or other "government" source. (We won't get into proving citizenship, which is another no-no.) I propose an alternative: election bureaus snap a picture of the voter at the time of registration or re-registration. At the polls, the "front desk" will pull up that picture when the voter presents himself/herself.
Difficult? No. MySQL can do it easily. PostgreSQL can do it. Can't speak about Microsoft databases, but I'd be surprised if Windows-based databases would raise any barriers, and even if it did I can think of several work-arounds so that any database package can be utilized.
Now, one of the issues exposed in the 2020 election was phantom voters. To combat the problem, each and every voter would be required to renew their registration every two years. Any time in the two-year period between national elections.
Election boards can visit nursing homes and similar institutions with laptops or tablets to bring the re-registration effort to the invalids -- the institutions can provide an affidavit of residency, removing this requirement from the residents. (Instead of using employees, election boards can used bonded volunteers.) This means that absentee ballots would automatically go to institutionalized people, without fail.
Then there is the active-service military: States need to work with the Pentagon to develop a more effective method of gathering the military vote. I'd make suggestions, but I don't want to stifle creativity on the part of both election boards and our Armed Forces.
This means the end of same-day registration, though. If the Democrats (and Republicans, and Greenies, and whatall) want to get as many voters as possible, they can spend money on an effort to get people to where they can register -- or finance the election board visits to the infirmed, for that matter.
Re-registration: This eliminates the high cost of trying to purge the voting roles of non-eligible electors. What does it take to re-register? What it takes to prove residency today, the States determine those rules.
Cost to the voter? Zero. Nothing. Nada. Which removes the Democrat's cry of "poll tax!"
Easier:
I t shall be a Felony for Any Public Servant, Public Employee or Officer of the Court to ask any US Citizen or Legal US Resident to provide any proof on Identification than which is necessary to Cast a Vote in a Public Election.
Sounds good. Of course, you do realize that mass mail-in balloting is here to stay.
Democrats have found their kryptonite and will never let go of the precious.
Utah has starting to use blockchain technology, which might go a long way to thwart voter and election fraud.
No, no, no. The next step in voting has to be more techy — that pumps up the cost and profits to the CCP.
Like in the CCP’s domain, everyone will have to carry a “licensed and vetted” cell phone. It will not only track your presence to ensure Covid control, but it will also act as the means to submit votes. No need for paper, even to mail in. That provides no profit to the CCP. And, the phone will track your societal impact. Did you criticize a Guv’mt official? Well, you lose points and must stay in your home for next 48 hours.
Serious question - how does blockchain technology do anything about false identification? It seems to me it would protect against completely fabricated or duplicated ballots, but nothing against ballots with a fake registration or multiple registrations in different precincts.
Get ALL Government Employees OUT of the Voting process.
I think it’s a fair idea.
Then I imagine the fossils who operate the elections in our community. They cannot operate an ATM.
Show them your state issued ID. Easy peasy.
With blockchain there has to a point of “truth. That means when you register to vote they do the verification. At that point it is all tied to a blockchain (there is no single blockchain out there—you can build a bunch of them.).
Then you scan a WR code assigned to you and it is accessible to anyone with access to the blockchain.
Not really sure how this would be different than a simple database. And it would be susceptible to being hacked.
And again, you are not going to get my Auntie Betty (94) to do any of this.
That will work fine as long as you can maintain the integrity of your data store. But you darn well, someone, somehow, will find a way to substitute pics.
Good idea.
You must have travelled on a cruise ship. Before you board a cruise they take your photo and hand you a plastic card and that card is the only way a person can board the ship or enter their cabin.
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