VERY strict. Voter registration required in advance. Absentee ballots must be requested 6 months in advance. Thumbprint required to vote.
The corruption in third-world countries is epidemic. So, they've developed voting systems that are resistant to corruption.
The US voting system assumes that people are basically honest. In the past, we were mostly honest outside a few places controlled by political machines (Chicago, NYC, etc).
When government was smaller, there wasn't much reason to cheat. But now that government has an unlimited ability to reward the "winners", it's very cost-effective to cheat.
We need a voting system that is at least as secure as credit card payment processing -- and frankly, that's still full of loopholes.
Yep, I see the credit card analogy with respect to voting security. You’re right, our voting systems assume people are basically honest. Liberals though, for whatever personal ethics they may have, have a strong totalitarian streak. Which extends to them wanting to control the outcome of elections so that liberals get elected.