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RATIONALE: The cost of picture management keeps going down. Cameras are now so cheap that they are ubiquitious in cell phones, and webcams cost less than a good dinner. Storage costs keep falling, too. So, marry the two: pictures of eligable voters stored on laptop computers.

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!"

1 posted on 12/23/2020 10:18:40 AM PST by asinclair
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To: asinclair

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.


2 posted on 12/23/2020 10:22:36 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: asinclair

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.


3 posted on 12/23/2020 10:35:54 AM PST by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz )
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To: asinclair

Utah has starting to use blockchain technology, which might go a long way to thwart voter and election fraud.


4 posted on 12/23/2020 10:37:35 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: asinclair

Get ALL Government Employees OUT of the Voting process.


8 posted on 12/23/2020 11:29:17 AM PST by Howie66 ("Ghislane Maxwell Didn't Kill Herself" )
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To: asinclair

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.


9 posted on 12/23/2020 11:59:44 AM PST by Vermont Lt (We have entered "Insanity Week." Act accordingly.)
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To: asinclair

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.


11 posted on 12/23/2020 12:33:12 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: asinclair

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.


12 posted on 12/23/2020 1:20:28 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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