NO “provisional” ballots. No live ballots lying around on vote day. No ballot without proper photo ID. Return later with proper ID to get ballot at that time. Period.
No drop boxes. In person voting. No more difficult than visiting a doctor or dentist. Return to more polling places for shorter lines and for citizen neighborhood hands-on transparency with same day paper ballot hand count of ballots and vote tallies. Located in the grade schools, which is within walking distance for most households. No temporary gloating live “provisional” ballots. Real ballot with real ID. No Zuckerberg dominion machines.
Yes
Brilliant idea!
My take on this topic, which includes the same as others in some cases and specific to federal elections only:
- Voter ID and proof of citizenship required. Those with reasonable explanations for why they do not have same should be counted as provisional.
- Mail in vote processes must result in all countable votes being in the possession of the voting precinct by the time the polls close on Election Day - this crap of votes continuing to roll in for days after Election Day has to end. Each state can set their own deadline as far as postmarks, etc. so that this outcome of all votes being on hand by the time polls close is obtained.
- A count of all cast ballots on hand at the time polls close and a recount of the same must match before poll workers leave for the day. Thousands of additional and before unknown ballots materializing two days after election day should cease to be a possibility.
- Each voter registration must include an affidavit stating whether they had been previously registered to vote and if so, where. Notification shall then be sent to previous precinct of record (whether in state or out of state) instructing that precinct to remove that voter from their roles.
- All recorded deaths must include a process where voter rolls are searched for that decedent and purged of their registration.
- Voter registrations shall expire and be purged from the voter rolls in five years from time of initial registration or last recorded time of casting a ballot, whichever is most recent.
- Any official USPS mail which is returned as undeliverable shall flag a voter’s registration as suspended until cured by the voter of record.
- Voter rolls in each state shall be run against a validation database which will identify addresses where residential property does not exist and or in excess of a specified number of registrants are claiming that same address. Flagged registrations are to be investigated and either cured or purged with cause.
- As some of these will require some rework of systems a reasonable timeline should be included for each state to accomplish the required tasks not unlike the “Real ID” initiative.