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>>There will undoubtedly be resistance to using it in blue states.<<

I caught flak for proposing this on another site, but if the GOP ever regains control of the federal government again I think a national database of Social Security Numbers (SSN’s) should be considered for use in validating voter registration.

Add a photo ID to every person in the database. I believe the existing database already notes whether or not one is a citizen, and it also lists one’s current address. Furthermore, most people voluntarily update their address to Social Security so that they continue to get earnings credited and/or benefits sent correctly.

The way I see it working is, first of all put it in the hands of a private entity, one that is audited by another neutral party. The internet is now available to virtually all polling places via at least smartphone technology, and in most cases by cable, dsl, or other means.

So, you go into the polling place and walk to a screen in front of the pollworker and then input (you, yourself, not the pollworker) your own SSN, masked like a password after you double-check it and hit “enter”. Two things then happen:

1) The screen displays your name, photo ID, current residence, voting precinct tied to that address, and indicates whether you are a citizen or not, and whether you are barred from voting or not (due to being a felon, or under age 18, or are attempting to vote in a precinct not linked to your current address, , or that you’re deceased, or that you’ve already voted in that election.)

2) It would mark you down as having voted in that election.

Note what this solves:

Underage? It shows you as such and alerts the pollworker you can’t vote.
Non-Citizen (here legally)? Ditto
Illegal Alien? Ditto
Voting in two precincts? Ditto
Trying to vote twice? Ditto
Voting in two different states? Ditto
Casting a ballot for a dead person? Ditto
Casting someone else’s ballot? The screen’s photo ID and yours don’t match, hence Ditto

(Most “Ditto”s should also generate an automated alert to the police department of that precinct as well. Upon arrest and conviction, their SSN should be tagged so that they are never permitted to vote again.

Finally, at the end of the voting period, the database manager reports the total number of properly registered voters for each precinct who entered their SSN’s and presumably then vote. A vote count higher than that number would indicate ballot stuffing. And ballot stuffing is the one crime that should be considered treasonous and punished accordingly in all this. For the double voter, just tag his SSN so he never gets to vote again.

There’s one additional benefit: If you’re so strung out on crack, or so damned stupid, that you can neither remember nor find your own SSN, you won’t be able to vote. That alone should cut the Dem vote by 3% to 5% minimum.

You can go on and on with this once it’s in place. For example, a state could pass a law requiring that all nursing homes and hospitals enter into the database the SSN’s of any patients or residents who have had guardians appointed and are no longer making their own decisions. Their SSN’s would be tagged as not eligible to vote. Funeral home operators could enter the SSN of all deceased that they handle so that record is as up to date as possible.

The study being discussed here proves beyond the proverbial shadow of a doubt that vote fraud is rampant. With that proof, it should be possible now to convince most citizens that something needs to be done. Legislators, particularly Democrat legislators, will of course be another matter, but even they can be coerced into it if enough citizens are beating on their doors to do something.