I see that there are a number of “policies” about this topic already. I have not reviewed them, but I will be brief. To be a legitimate “democracy”, the United States must have verifiable elections.
Any democratic-style government which does not spend any of its resources creating and preserving verifiable elections is not a legitimate government.
Citizen-only voters, properly registered voters, early-enough-registered voters and a 48 hour “election day” / national-shut-everything-down-holiday is what US elections should look like. Hand count paper ballots in front of multiple witnesses of all involved parties. 100% transparency while protecting the secrecy of the ballot caster. The United States must do this to survive.
If we don’t do this, our enemies (domestic and foreign) will infiltrate, pervert and destroy.
If we could possibly get an Amendment, now would be the time. Many people are aware and will support. Your writeup here is a serious first-go, at the least. Hopefully it will get some traction.
Couple thoughts:
The Constitution already requires the Courts to hear “every case and controversy” and the ‘standing’ doctrine – as it is practiced – is a-Constitutional, made up by the Courts. Not sure what to do about the failure of the Courts other than making such failures into crimes … or … with Amendments. What we really need is some rules on removing judges. There is a way now, but it’s nearly impossible.
I mentioned 48 hours for voting to accomodate families/childcare and shift-workers, particularly emergency and first-responders. The main goal is to get away from “voting month” and move towards “voting day”. We want maximum voter participation. I think voting in a single 48-hour period if most of society is halted should get everyone who can vote.
For voting outside of those 48 hours, as long as there is a verifiable, rigid process with requirements (such as air-tight ‘absentee’ voting), there won’t be any particular vulnerability outside blatant corruption of election officials.
We can’t eliminate crime, but we can make it easy to ‘catch’ and overwhelming in prosecution.
Whatever ‘rules’ we make, they must be simple and clear – easy to read, easy to understand, easy to follow, easy to enforce and easy to adjudicate, with clear consequences for deviations, both criminal and un-intentional/incidental.
Some things in some of your sections probably won’t get much traction. But hopefully the decision-makers will consider your ideas. We clearly need better requirements to be able to vote – simply being female or 18 or older is not serving us very well.