I think that a thumb print on the registered voter list is a good form of ID, even poor people carry theirs.
Those with out will be few and an alternate such as finger or toe could be used and noted.
I am tired of warehousing offenders and so propose that election law violations be punished with the removal of the offenders name from government rolls – drivers license, voting, property ownership, social security and passport, all government lists and databases except the one that gives a date that they may start over enrolling in the different lists.
I advocate a ballot that has no names to vote in opposition of but only the offices that are standing for election and opto character recognition boxes to write the name of the person that you wish to vote for – no hints in the polling place but you may bring a ‘cheat sheet’. Ballots to be run through a scanner for error detection and the electronic results submitted at poll closing. Hand written ballots to be counted in front of witnesses and the results posted in vandal resistant form to the polling place door. Ballot box reloaded, resealed and transported with witnesses to secure storage. The hand count is then handed in and if the electronic count and the hand count match the polling place is posted as confirmed and added to the list for certification that it is correct. If they do not match the ballot box is retrieved and recounted twice by different teams in front of the public with 2 witnesses for each counter.
Election fraud is endemic starting with the control of most of the process by political gangs, The broadcasting people that treat on politics are most often partisans rather than reporters. Votescam was nothing new but the whining after they were caught is new.
