Posted on 11/07/2024 4:37:51 AM PST by dennisw
That’s because the USC puts the power of election law in the legislator of each state, which is fine.
The problem is the corrupt executive branches in the states that break their own election laws.
The USC provides an umbrella of ‘basic rules’ and ‘universal limitations’ on government.
An amendment with basic universal laws that every state has to follow would go a long way toward eliminating most of these issues of fraud.
And violating election law should be treated as any other crime of fraud.
1. All State voter registrations nationwide are for a maximum of 2 years. After any Federal Election (even years) voter registration databases must be purged and the registration process starts over from scratch.
2. A Federal Voter ID Database is created which all states must use. Required inputs include SSN and scan of Birth Certificate / Passport, address. Once validated, a Federal Voter ID number is created and given to the State allowing them to complete the voter registration.
3. All states must use paper ballots. Only states can print ballots. No third parties may print ballots.
4. Election Day becomes a mandatory National Holiday. Elimination of early voting and absentee ballot requests must be changed back to specific requests and a needs based requirement (travel with proof of travel).
5. No ballot drop boxes. You must provide your Federal Voter ID for your ballot to be received (which is checked against the Federal Database to ensure you have not already voted). If you do not have your Voter ID, your ballot becomes provisional and is held until you can provide it (curing process). If it is not provided within 7 days your ballot is not counted. Voters would be informed of this at the polling site.
6. At polling sites, there is one Judges and 2 Captains for each precinct. Captains would be 1 D and 1 R.
7. At the close of polling, each party Captain independently tallies all the votes. The judge then takes the ballots and feeds them into the voting machine to count. All 3 numbers must match. If they do not match, the process must be repeated until the numbers match. Those numbers are then called into the State by the Judge. The ballots for each precinct are then secured into a separate ballot bag and taken to the processing center.
8. The processing center then counts them electronically, keeping each precinct separate. Provisional ballots are held and not counted until the voter cures their ballot. If the numbers do not match the counts from the polling location, then the ballots are isolated and the State has 7 days to resolve why the ballot counts differ from what was counted at the polling station. If the state cannot resolve the counts, then the counts from the polling location plus any cured ballots are the verified count. All uncured ballots are destroyed after 7 days.
9. The state can report the numbers being called in by the precincts.
There is no point in harsh sentences which are never carried out. We would do perfectly well to actually prosecute and convict people under current laws. We have not been doing even that much.
The 2020 "election" was an organized conspiracy to the tune of at least 16 million fraudulent votes. The organizers left plenty of tracks. Let's go get them.
And if that is "old news" and we don't want to "reopen old wounds", then there were lesser attempts in AZ, WI, MN, and PA which left plenty of current tracks in the 2024 election. Let's go get them.
Still don't want to press that point? Let's repeal the "Motor Voter" law. Let's also require State-issued ID with proof of US citizenship to receive a ballot for Federal elections.
Let's press States to purge their voter rolls too. Too many States have more "voters" on the rolls than their eligible population, as reported by the US Census. If the named "voters" miss two Federal elections, they should be dropped from the rolls. In any case, voters should be verified every nine years or so. In some places, the States need to void all voter rolls and start over with new registrations.
And enough with "same day registration". Maricopa county (AZ) had a drop of 90,000 "new voter registrations" on the day before the election. Half of those were obviously fraudulent. Probably, all of them were fraudulent.
In my opinion, this was a measure to deliberately swamp the system, so that other fraud might go undetected. The organization that delivered those registrations should be investigated and individuals should be prosecuted.
Don't have any laws for that? Time to pass laws holding "Non-Government-Organizations" liable for soliciting fraudulent voter registrations. Almost all such organizations are sponsored by Democrats, and they are extremely lax about following registration requirements.
Love all those points!!
That should be done ASAP!
This is something I want the new admin to employ. I have been thinking about this for some time. Let the States do as they will per the Constitution. The fed to add a national Audit of Elections. This can be done without breaking any existing privacy laws through public and voluntary information.
* What to audit?
** Match names to voter roles
** Match names to addresses
** Verify voting
Treat this exactly like quality defect auditing in manufacturing.
* Define a voting defect
** Voter is not in existing voter roles.
** Voter does not reside at recorded address.
** Voter cannot confirm voting method or approx date.*
*** This would be *voluntary information.
Choose a small random sample of votes across the entire nation.
** Set a minimum defect rate that triggers a regional larger sample audit
** Set minimum unverified (but not defective) rate.
*** Set minimum defect rate that triggers 100% state-wide audit.
**** Set minimum defect rate that triggers 100% National audit.
Match names to voter roles can be automatic and digital.
* This may take a direct visit of an auditor/team to local election offices if records are not digitally available.
Confirm names to addresses
* Easily be completed automatically (search algorithm) for 99% of people.
** Manual verification for those remaining.
Canvassing to verify the authenticy
* Voluntary participation (similar to census)
* Personally verify the person voted, method and approx date.
** Canvass question cannot be phrased to merely say "yes, I did".
Contract several of the worlds leading auditors to, together, create a unified process that is not invasive, does not deny anyone voting rights or access and is effective.
* Contract qualified auditing firms to complete.
** Collected data to be delivered, as appropriate, to:
*** Local Legislatures/Courts as sworn testimony.
*** State Legislatures/Courts as sworn testimony.
*** Congress as sworn testimony.
Law Enforcement is NOT part of this scope.
THIS SHOULD PROBABLY BE ITS OWN THREAD
The Motor Voter law needs to be reviewed to see if all it did was give greater opportunity of voter fraud.
The most consequential chair of the GOP in my lifetime I would image.
She didn’t give those sleazy leftists a friggin INCH.
She was on his right, adjacent to him.
I agree. The voting act already gives the federal government too much say so over how states run their elections. Put more authority in place and the next administration after Trump will use it to suppress legit votes and allow rampant suspect ones.
It is up to the voters of states to elect officials who will clean up the process for that state.
“Mail in or off site voting must be stopped except in extreme “instances.”
I agree. And I say that having a mother who utilizes absentee because she leaves for the winter. It’s a huge opportunity for fraud.
We have early voting available even on Saturdays, the license branch stays open late to help with expired DLs or IDs. We have traveling board available for nursing homes, hospitals, etc. There are so many options available that never were before.
And the description of how your voting system works is kind of what I mean. Let each state decide what works for them. We have to get back to protecting states’ rights. We’ve seen what happens after decades of federal interference... I mean... “help”. 😂 Start making the punishment more severe because cheaters are always gonna cheat.
“a national voting standard sounds like the kind of thing Democrats would do.”
We already have one. It is ILLEGAL, under FEDERAL LAW, to require proof of citizenship to vote in a federal election.
Do you have a reference for that? It strikes me as a stretch, but it might be considerable as attendant to specifying the process for naturalization.
We have lots of states with rigorous rlrction processes that are fair and unbiased. We also have a few rogue states where the opposite is true.
Imagine a federal government under a tyrannical Harris controlling the elections. Look at the massive, nefarious and highly illegal political attacks that the deep state fedgov unleashed on Trump the past ten years. Even with Trump at the helm for four of those hears, their corrupt efforts to destroy him never flagged.
You want the same highly corrupt apparatus that did that to Trump handling our elections?
Federalization of election power would be a disaster, probably the thing that would end the Republic.
Florida showed the way. Do what they did.
Look at these numbers. 15 million “missing” voters?
2016
Trump received 62,984,828
Clinton received 65,853,514
for a total of 128,838,369
2020
Biden received 81,283,501
Trump received 74,223,975
for a total of 155,507,476
2024
Trump so far has received 72,623,882
Harris so far has received 67,927,989
for a total of 140,551,871
That is how Republics die.
Democrats already violated the Constitution with the National Firearms Act. Some people happen to agree with the outcome, so I guess it's OK.
Unconstitutional acts by Fedzilla are NEVER OK.
We, as Americans, agree to be governed as long as these two elements are observed in theory and in practice:
[1] All citizens get to choose who governs us through free and fair elections.
[2] All citizens (including those who govern) are bound by the same laws, and treated the same under the law.
I only agree with the first one with the caveat that state legislatures should always have the power to circumvent direct election processes in cases where it is permitted under the law. I would love, for example, to see one or more states go back to the "old" way of having the state legislature appoint presidential electors directly -- just for the sake of seeing how well it could work. The founders of this country would have been repulsed by the idea that every mouth-breathing idiot who reaches the age of 18 should have a say in electing government leaders.
The second point is not going to work if you get down to the details of an election process. For reasons I described earlier, there's no way in hell every state should have uniform election standards from top to bottom. Once you go down that road, you're going to end up in a scenario where every state must have the same voting hours, the same absentee, early voting, and mail-in voting, and voter verification process, the same voter registration process, etc. That itself might sound appealing, but let's wake up and get back to reality here: Any uniform standard is ultimately going to set to the "lowest common denominator" in every respect. Your voting process is going to be as effective, efficient, and transparent as public schools or government-run health care -- which is, IT IS GOING TO SUCK BADLY.
It's one of the ways the Feds abuse their power by exceeding their legitimate authority. This garbage needs to END, not be expanded by our side. The practice of heavily taxing We the People and then sending the money back to the States with lots of strings attached is corrupt and the mother of worse corruption.
If it’s a federal office at stake, then stricter and more consistent standards should apply. Makes sense.
Bingo!
If you want to change the Constitution ... CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION.
It's why we have an amendment process.
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