“There has to be a card or book that the voter signs prior to getting a ballot.”
Here in Tennessee, before we can vote we sign two different times, we show ID, and they look pretty closely at the signatures.
Is there any way to incorporate fingerprint matching without having fingerprints floating around to be used later by Big Brother in nefarious ways? Provide a fingerprint when you sign in next to your name for the database, and then fingerprint your ballot while precinct worker observes. A really bad idea, I guess ... Run ballots. Those without a fingerprint, or a fingerprint that doesn’t match, would be non-processable and kicked out.
I think fingerprints would be too intrusive. Besides, they could use a system like that to determine who voted for whom.
Here in Michigan you have to sign a card, the poll worker checks the signature of the card against your ID and then they reference the voter registration role. All have to match before you get a ballot. All the ballots are numbered sequentially. The poll worker tears off the the top of the ballot, enters the ballot number next to the voter’s name and then hands the voter the clean ballot and a privacy sleeve.
All the numbers are saved and I assume there is a recording of the starting ballot number and the ending ballot number. All spoiled ballots are retained and I think it would be hard to introduce extra votes at the precinct level. The fraud comes at the collection point where the provisional, early, and mail-in ballots or absentee are recorded.
That’s why I think the fraud will be found when you compare the numbers of voters versus the numbers that voted at the precinct level. That’s where the discrepancy will be found. I doubt the Dems will go to the trouble of adding addition names/records on the precinct books and if I remember correctly, the books used to be included with the actual ballots. So the ones that were “just found” should be out of sequence. I don’t know, I’m just guessing but I think the fraud would be a lot easier to prove than people let on. It’s just no one wants to admit our elections have been so compromised they no longer count.
If you want a truly fair election, go back about 50 years. NO early voting, NO provisional ballots, NO absentee ballots without a good reason, PROPER ID required to vote. And unlike Broward County, a homeowners association card is NOT proper ID.