That's what I have been asking as well. We should never have a voting system that doesn't have a paper trail. My son's friend has even been playing around with programming from afar by sending a signal. I have always told my son this guy is going to become a millionaire or end up in prison. He is one of the first people I know that figured out how to steal a wireless signal from a business and use it with no one the wiser. He is really good at this type of thing and fortunately for our side he is a huge Republican.
I've been giving the proof of identity thing some thought over the last few weeks. I'm really against a national I'd. Let's not go down that road, just accept it and let's move on.
I think I've got a plan to get around that, and allow people to verify their identity. The one down-side would be that folks would have to register before each election. After that they could vote at any polling site in the nation. It might even work out that they could do it from home or even away from home eventually using a laptop.
Some time before election, a perpsective voter would visit a registration booth. At that booth, they would provide some form of identification, a driver's license would generally suffice. If not, a state I.D. card could be provided. Once this person had shown they were legit to register, they would have their thumbprint scanned. The good thing is that they would not have to have their personal data on file. As long as their thumbprint was in the database, they would be good for one vote. And that one vote would be all they got no matter how many pricincts they visited.
Your print would be tied to the area in which you reside. Present that thumbprint in Florida, and your California precinct information would still come up.
Once your thumb was scanned, and your vote registered, your print would become non-valid for approval purposes for another vote. And 45 days after an election, your print would be purged from the national database.
If you chose, and by personal choice only, you could give a personal contact point. And if you did, you could receive an e-mail of your ballot choices, if you wished to. If you didn't wish to, your thumbprint would still be on file as a valid key, with no other information necessary, with no possible way of tying it to one single citizen. You would be registered, and that's all that would be necessary.
No personal information would have to remain on file. You would only be authorize for one vote. You could vote just about anywhere with a thumb scanner.
And if you happened to die, if you happened to be a dog or cat, or happened to be a democrat hell bent on defauding the system, it wouldn't matter. You'd be able to register once, if you were eligable. You'd be able to vote once if you had registered.
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