We can't (and perhaps, shouldn't) stop polling from occurring. But we can INSIST that there will be no extension of voting hours for any reason, and ONLY THOSE BALLOTS THAT HAVE BEEN TURNED IN BY POLL-CLOSING TIME WILL BE COUNTED.
(If Iraqis can risk their lives, literally, to stand in line to vote, then Americans can make time to vote on election day, or not at all!)
Or elect all candidates who run and get more than some minimal fraction of all votes cast, giving each elected candidate a fractional vote in proportion to the fraction of votes they received. That would open things up for more than two major parties as a side effect.
No, what we need is when someone is caught and convicted of election fraud, they get executed. Period, end of discussion.
Election Fraud is no less a crime than Treason and should be handled appropriately.
The solution is for Republicans to relentlessly bring forward voter ID bills, one after another. Make normal, traditional American families see that the rats’ primary interest is in allowing vote fraud and stealing elections.
Relentlessly, state by state. NOW is the time to get it done.
I believe the tea party in Houston had some success in finding and preventing voter fraud. We need to read up more about it.
Letting both “winners” vote is somewhat like Solomon giving half the baby to each of the “winning” moms. Furthermore, it changes the vote stealing to one of trying to make sure you wind up within that magic 1 or 2% trigger.
No posting of results until 100% of precincts have reported.
My theory is that any election system designed by a man can be kinked by another man. Hundreds of millions of dollars are flowing into election coffers, and much skulduggery. My solution would be to reduce the power of the elective offices to reduce the amount of fraud and corruption, and need to steal elections.
By decentralizing the power in Washington we would reduce the attractiveness of those offices. The power would then be transferred to the state level. The lobbyist would then have to split their efforts into fifty states and one federal government and would lose much of their effectiveness.
We already have it. Now that Repubblies control more than half of the legislatures, they should (and trust me, will) pass voter ID laws. That might be worth 1% of all ballots during a close election year for a statewide office, because all the fraud happens in heavily Democratic precincts.
All election stealing should be ratted out!
Stop early voting
A few dead bodies turning up in dumpsters would go a long way toward ending the problem.
If there is no fear, the practice can only grow.