MaryAnne11
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- Oct 1, 2016
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You do know absentee is paper? And they are checked against records.Don't like the present arrangement?
Then perhaps it's time to establish very detailed Federal standards that each State must follow.
The States have had 230 years to get this right and apparently they're still screwing-up, so...
You can have your Voter ID, which includes a proof-of-citizenship, and a digital cert(ificate) along the lines of the Real ID initiative...
But the other side gets paperless voting... you insert your Real ID... the voting machine checks the database.. then rejects your presence or allows you to vote.
Hell... screw vote-by-mail... anybody with a computer and a cheap smart-card reader can vote online, using two-factor identity verification...
Each county can have one (or a handful of) paper voting stations for folks who resist the newer, better way of doing things, or who need to file a 'provisional'.
And, in place of all those polling-place judges, a small army of electronic system administrators and bipartisan system auditors to keep things honest.
All in a closed-loop system that the Rooskies or Chinese would be hard-pressed to hack, and even immeasurably more difficult to tamper with.
A uniform system with uniform requirements administered uniformly and leaving little room for dispute, generating its results in real time.
Screw the local-yokels and corrupt local and State and regional election authorities... they've had their chance... for 230 years... time for a change.
And... there's always a way around a Constitutional sticking-point or statutory limitation or existing case law... all it takes is a little imagination and money.