Once More, Evidence of Voter Registration Fraud is Ignored
The parties don’t need to fiddle around with the vote during the Election Season (I almost wrote Voting Day, but that ship has sailed).
Let me make that clear:
On the day that votes are cast/delivered to the Elections Office (by hand or mail), it’s already too late to Stop the Fraud. The VOTER REGISTRATIONS are the source of the problem, and that is where the work has to happen.
First, some assumptions:
States (and by extension, the local county boards) control the registration of voters. If THEY accept a registration, it can be near-impossible to remove that voter. So, stopping the process, when it is clear that the voter is non-existent, is the first priority.
Failing that, the next most important thing is to organize both high-level analysis of present registrations, and remove those not linked to an actual person. This is done on several levels:
Did the person ever produce a verified ID? If not, put that person into a pile labeled Further Investigation.
Is that person’s birthdate unlikely? Are they more than 120 years old? SOME of those will prove to be typos, made during data entry, and easily corrected, should that person be able to present valid ID for a birthdate with that same date, but the next century.
Does that person live in a residence that is the same as more than 10 other registered voters? Set that group aside, and look into it. It may be valid, such as a voter who lives in an apartment building (in those cases, find out who lives in every apartment, and correct their voters registration with an apartment number).
Is that person allegedly homeless? Talk to the other residents, find out if they have regularly seen that person. Follow up to make sure that SOME ID is available (and, there WILL be - health insurance card, EBT, Obamaphone with phone number, etc.).
Get the state legislatures to mandate purges of the system, and have penalties for enforcement (such as firing those colluding with any shenanigans or fraud, AND loss of pension, if a state, county, or city employee - make that include teachers). Now, what does that ‘purge’ mean? Simply, a postcard must be sent one year BEFORE an election year (mid-year or presidential), that - if not returned promptly - will be placed in a file to be investigated.
Eliminate the print-on-demand ballots - they are prone to a high number of failures. Have a preprinted ballot option, that must be hand-tallied.
Now, I voted for the first time in Lorain, OH, in that special election (Issue 1 lost). At that time, I noticed the machines/ballots used. I posted my experience on Facebook:
I voted today, using these machines.
Slick. Easy.
To begin with, a person was manning the front table; she gave me a touchscreen 'pen', and told me to go to any free table.
I gave them my ID - a REAL ID driver's license - and they scanned it. They asked me for verification of some information, and had me acknowledge that the screen was correct.
After that, I used the pen to provide my signature on the screen. They checked, and I was good.
Then, I got a printed ballot, and went to an empty machine. I inserted the ballot, looked at the screen, and saw that the print was small. I noticed a button that adjusted text size, and tried it.
Boy, what a difference!
I voted, checked to make sure it was registered correctly, and hit the print button. I then took the printout to the scanner.
On the printout, the issue was listed, along with my vote. So, there will be an audit trail for votes. Nice.
The BEST part about the system is that the ballots are scanned LOCALLY, at the voting location. That lessens the opportunities to screw with the vote.