[copycat]

If I were W., Election Reform would be near the top of my to-do list.

1. All votes must be cast at the proper polling place on the day of the election. No early voting, no absentee voting, no provisional ballots.
2. The voter must be properly registered with picture ID, and produce a signature, which would be compared to the original.
3. Voting would occur on a paper ballot, preferably optical scan, in which the voter must fill in a circle corresponding to the candidate of his choice. The voter is responsible for the proper completion of the ballot. The standard is whether the machine can read the vote.
4.All ballots after being scanned would be secured by a team consisting of at least one member of EVERY party who appears on the ballot. Chain of custody must assure no tampering with the ballots in any way.
5. Contests would consist only of repeat scanning of the ballots, on machines just calibrated for accuracy. Under no circumstances would subjective human judgements be allowed to determine votes.

[copycat]

Forgot to add to my Election Reform,


6. six months before every election, the state would mail postcards to every registered voter, and any cards returned for bad addresses, or voters who have moved would be purged from the rolls.

[capitan_refugio]

Step No. 1 should be:

Purge the voter polls in every state (with respect to Federal elections) and have all new voter registrations require proof of citizenship. Congress can do this, if it has the will.