voter registration is good as long as one can PROVE one is a CITIZEN and is ELIGABLE to vote. As mentioned in my previous post, once an election declares a winner, the person is sworn in and for some reason, that is the point of no return for the seat. Vetting the voter who registers to vote on the day of an election will 30 days or more and well after the perceived winner will have been sworn in. I favor the good old way where on has to register 30+ days In advance of an election and has to prove eligibility to register. Absentee ballots should not be allowed as well as the motor-voter registration should not be allowed. One live and legal person, one vote. Any degree of ambiguity in the validity of our voting system will be exploited to the hilt and we then get what we now have, a corrupted political system where politicians as well as judges are bought all the time so there has been no accountability or legal recourse to overturn an illegitimate election. Some would say, oh, that's just politics. I say, NO, that's political corruption and it has bankrupted this country. I like the idea one going in to a booth and casting a vote and then dipping one's finger in ink, period.
1. You want people to prove that they're citizens and eligible.
How do you do that? A birth certificate, naturalization document or passport can prove citizenship but many valid citizens don't have them, and many people who do have those documents aren't eligible voters because they've committed crimes. In states that restrict felon voting rights, how can you prove that you've never been convicted of a felony? Maybe in that state it is easy, but in another state? And then there's the issue of proving that you live in the address you say you live in. How do you do that?
This is complicated stuff, but none of this has anything to do with registering online vs. through the mail. There's nothing less secure about registering to vote online.