Early voting should be eliminated. The rats have too much time to steal the election. A single voting day won’t give them enough time.
“Ballot stuffing (or shredding) should be a capital offense.”
That’s a bit harsh, but I would definitely say mandatory imprisonment, lifelong loss of voting privilege, and lifelong ban from having any involvement in the voting process.
Agreed, too much rides on having honest elections.
Ballot stuffing (or shredding) should be a capital offense.
We need a federal law that we vote with paper ballots that are coded to neighborhoods or small towns / precincts. Anonymous but the number of them matches the number of registered voters for that small area. Easy with computerization to do this. Ballots are paper, piled at random at a location in the small area (a library or some such) and registered voters have a couple months to swing by with ID and pick one up. No one would ever know which voter got which ballot number, just know that they got a ballot for that particular location. Then ballots are taken on voting day to the poll and deposited in the box by the voter.
Anonymous voting but each precinct has known numbers. Imagine a place like “the west side of Woodtown.” To deter fraud, you know that “the west side of Woodtown” has 24,000 registered voters. They are given ballots whose numbers are in order in a set (however many digits you need to get enough for the whole country). The ballots are boxed and kept by election officials to distribute to people with proper ID, and the ballots are not given out in numerical order but are random. This would really work.
After Election Day, fraud could be discovered if the number of ballots OR the numbers on the ballots from “west side of woodtown” didn’t match what they were supposed to.