And to think they want people to be able to vote online from home.
I know, right? A ludicrous idea, from the point of view of fraud alone, not even to mention the casualness of it being a cheapening effect. There should be effort, and communities should come together at the polling places.
National elections are one of the few areas that are still "federal" and not centrally controlled. It forces people to deal with the procedures, people and issues in the state in which they live. It's a good thing.
I'm in favor of two methods of voting ONLY:
• 1) at the polling place and
• 2) via absentee ballot.I would like to see one day of voting ONLY, and the polls open during the same hours coast to coast.
Media should be absolutely forbidden to announce how the eastern states are voting until polls are closed on the west coast.
Likewise, no exit polling should be allowed until polls are closed out west.
People should get time off work to vote, but they would have to obtain a time stamp from the polling place when they entered to stand in line and when they left -- or, to avoid counterfeiting, the states could publish a big database of the times online so employers could check if someone took off more than an hour.
Paper ballots, filled out in ink.
Counties should be required to store the ballots for eleven months. All ballots should be subject to random checks of random boxes or single ballots pulled out, by bi-partisan teams from other states assigned to this purpose.