Election Day could become two weeks long under N.J. Democrats' bill

Instead of having one day to vote, New Jersey residents would get a two-week window to cast their ballots in person under a measure approved by an Assembly panel today.

The voting process would undergo a costly sea change if the bill (A3553) becomes law. Every municipality with more than 30,000 voters would have to set up more polling places, keep them open longer and hire more poll workers.

The nonpartisan Office of Legislative Services said yesterday that the changes would cost the state $46 million this year and $20 million in the next year, agreeing with a cost estimate by Gov. Chris Christie’s administration.

The chairman of the state Democratic Party, Assemblyman John Wisniewski, said Hurricane Sandy kept many people at home who would have voted. The superstorm struck New Jersey days before the 2012 elections.

The trouble with needing ID’s is that it wouldn’t matter in the heavily democrat precincts where the critical fraud is happening, unless there was some auditable record of an ID having been shown, like a photocopy of the ID - because the people running the show are corrupt. Remember in Pennsylvania in 2008 where the R observers were kicked out for an hour or so, while boxes of ballots were brought in?

I think the only way to stop stuff like that is to require something like a fingerprint, that can be documented on paper and duplicates can be detected. That’s what a signature is supposed to be, but a fingerprint would be scannable and able to be scientifically verified as either a copy or unique. The fingerprint could go right beside the signature so that it would be known which ballots were fraudulent. (Details would have to be figured out; I’m just saying this off the top of my head right now.)

But there would also have to be controls so that the software is accountable. Software that flips votes would have to be disallowed. I have no clue how that could be done, but there are some smart computer people who could figure out a way for the integrity of the tabulation to be audited and alarms to sound if anything within the program has been set to flip votes. At least it seems like that should be possible. If not, then we should get rid of electronic voting altogether.

I would say electoral integrity is definitely a national security issue.

If we have to show all our private parts before we can get on a plane, I’d think a fingerprint would be a breeze.

And nobody has to go to an office to get a fingerprint card; everybody’s got one. It would blow away all the excuses the left uses - all their reasons for saying this is suppression of certain votes.

Glad you mentioned "software that flips votes," which is even a more serious cheating trick than "early voting", because it potentially can cause a greater numerical change in the vote count in the fraudsters' favor. Judging from the unexpectedly large differences between the pre-election poll results from generally reliable pollsters like Rasmussen and Gallup and the tabulated results in swing state after swing state last November, it would be reasonable to say that "vote flipping" via electonic hacking into optical scanners and touchscreen devices was done to an unprecedented extent.

There are a number of different dimensions of election fraud and cheating whose cumulative effect was so strong in November that it likely turned the presidential race around. Early voting leading to multiple voting was one problem, electronic hacking causing "vote flipping" another. Early voting can be outlawed by legislation; electronic hacking and vote flipping can be nitigated by more careful surveillance on the devices by knowledgeable computer professionals, as you say. Any serious attempt to tamp down on the cheaters must address both problems and even more. We must have the determination to do so or else 'Rats will be in the White House in perpetuity!

And make no mistake about it, the fraud and cheating were targeted to populated 'Rat contolled cities and counties in the swing states where it had maximal impact on the outcome.

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