If the military pulls off a true coup, then a civil war will ensue. Millions of Americans would love to to try out their ARs and AKs against tyranny. We a very close no CW right now. If the states don’t clean up the electoral mess, it will happen.
I’ll participate from my wheelchair.
It is not up to former and current generals to fix, that is right in the military service academy training, it is up to the the exactly one power, states legislatures with the approval of the state governor, to take control of each own powers of election control. Simply mail in voting is not trusted by a majority of the minority, their fore it does not have a place in federal and state elections. Participation in voting, getting ones shoes on and going to polling place is required and it has been traditionally in winter where weather in half the states might be a challenge. Those challenges were their for a preservation of society purpose unrelated to classism, racism, religion or political viewpoint, voting should be a hard task undertaken with a lot of thought.
Alot of preparations for individual voting is a political education test. Unfortunatly americas marketers participate only on most basic of levels.
Party Voting preparations are chalenging late rule changes that may counter established election law. Both parties did a very poor job in managing each states elections regulations and practices.
Individual vote counting groups were commercialized and filled with bureaucrats because nobody cared for the past 50 years, now the parties care, now the individual voters want to observe the process. That a overall every detail transparency is a requirement, webcams, election observers within 3 feet is going to happen, else the bureaucrats results will no longer be trusted. Anti Counterfeiting of blank/prefilled ballots, Anti Tampering, Chain of Trust and Voter Receipts that allow voters to confirm their vote was or was not counted correctly is what is now required of the system. With 128 byte Generic IDs and QR codes all this is not difficult to do.
With Vote Receipts, The day after an election, the voter does not see his vote in the selected election tally, they can file a lawsuit with state and federal courts with standing they have been wronged. With the lack of vote receipt there is no way for the legal system to gain rapid recourse on systematic election fraud inside the vote counting.
Bringing back the electronic output or paper based equivalent of the the 3 ply form would provide evidence in support of election integrity. The serial number of the voters individual ballot would only become known to any party by the voter bringing up their might be a problem because his/her vote was not published in the tally expected.