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Geez, they’d think I’m a criminal.

I want to:
1. Abolish early and absentee voting entirely (With one exception below). If you are too sick to get to the polls then too bad, I feel sorry for you.
2. Require polls to be open 24 hours on election day. This give everyone adequate time to vote if they want to.
3. National elections should be a holiday and (or) moved to a Saturday or Sunday. No school, bank or other businesses should be open with a few exceptions and those should would on a reduced schedule or skeleton staff. No one should have an excuse to not vote because they are busy
4. No results can be announced until all votes are counted. This means that it will be harder to create votes by fraud in a close election.
5. All ballots must be returned to the central counting facility withing 45 minutes after the election closes.
6. Require a picture ID (Place a picture on a Social Security card since everyone has to have one anyway)
7. In a recount the total number of ballots must be the same - i.e. you can’t find an uncounted box somewhere and add to the totals.
8. Voting fraud should be a prisonable offense with a mandatory 15 year sentence. This includes retirees that, for example: vote in New York and Florida
9. The only exception to absentee voting should be for overseas military personnel and possibly expat citizens. They should be able to declare that they are not a resident of any state and get to vote only for president since they effectively have no meaningful state representation anyway. Neither of the Senators or any of the congresspersons from New Jersey cared about me when I lived in Hong Kong. I would even be in favor of creating a non contiguous external state comprised of overseas military, expats and US territories that received two Senators and 2 House members but I realize that is not a popular stance and would take a Constitutional amendment.
10. Electoral votes in States should be awarded by congressional district not in a State at large

Just my thoughts