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“Let us keep this in perspective, one third of the votes cast for Clinton are fraudulant. Either dead folk, or illegal aliens.”

I’m not sure that it is that much - stupidity, hatred and ignorance of history and the way the world works accounts for most of those votes. HOWEVER, one of the primary missions that the Trump Administration MUST have is to push a bill through Congress that will guard against the vast majority of the fraud. It must cover only those elections in which candidates for federal office are on the ballot, or it will not pass Constitutional muster.

1) No non-citizens can vote, PERIOD. Proof of citizenship is required to register. Any non-citizen even attempting to register to vote is kicked out of the country, and barred from returning - EVER.

2) No motor-voter registration. That bill (signed into law by Clinton) must be revoked, and the feds need to lean on the states to do the same with their local laws. There is simply no way that state DMVs are equipped to handle voter registration.

3) No same-day registration - in fact, none for at least 2 weeks before an election, so that the person registering can be checked out.

4) There absolutely MUST be a requirement for photo ID to be presented at the time of voting. Trump MUST have Scalia’s replacement on the USSC by the time this case gets to the Court, as it is guaranteed to be appealed all the way up the line.

5) Dead people must be removed from the rolls within a week after death. There must be a link between Social Security and the various election boards to facilitate this. Ditto for people who move from one state to another - when they apply for a new license and turn in their old one, the DMV of the new state must contact the old state’s election board.

6) Voter roles must be cleared - completely - at least every 10 years. This gets people off who have died or moved, assuming that they haven’t been otherwise removed.

7) Once someone votes, they must dip their thumb into some kind of indelible ink. Obviously, absentee voters won’t have that happen - so there must be a means of ensuring that absentees can’t/don’t vote a 2nd time in their own jurisdiction or elsewhere. Also, provision must be made to ensure that all military absentee ballots are rushed to the states in time to ensure that these people - who ensure (among other things) our right to vote, get to vote themselves if they want to do so.

8) There must be SEVERE penalties for committing voter fraud - this needs to be a federal felony. Someone convicted of such fraud must lose their right to vote, and serve some time in prison.

There will have to be some federal funding for this - there cannot be an objection from the states (which would provide a wedge to render the law unconstitutional) about unfunded mandates. However, IMHO, this is well worth the expenditure of even $100 million/year (and I don’t think that it would be that expensive) to ensure that voter fraud is reduced to an absolute minimum.

By the way, exnavy, thanks very much for your service. My father was in the Navy for a couple of years (1959-1961), and spoke of his experience fondly for the rest of his life. He was, rightly, proud of his service, and remained lifelong friends with several of his Navy buddies.