Ballots need a number printed on every one of them. Bundles of consecutive numbers need to be sent to each poll location. Those numbers need to recorded for posterity. NO more ballots should be printed & numbered than the number of clean registrations on the county rolls.
IF 2000 ballots are sent to a poll location, then the ballots cast & the ones NOT used should add up to 2000. The numbers should be sequential, and no additional numbers should appear in each poll locations count.
When the ballots are scanned for counting, ANY ballot number that appears more than once, should stop the machine & be kicked out of the count. That would prevent ballots from being run thru the machines more than once.
Each ballot as it is counted by the machine should also get an indelible mark placed on it & the bundles counted by bundle-—not mixed up all over the place.
With today’s computers, this could be solved.
We have to stop the voting all over the place, also. Vote on Election day....Open the polls at 5 AM & close them at 11 PM if necessary. ONE day & Military count. No early voting. No motor voter registration. ANY absentee ballots MUST be received by end of election day, and there has to be careful scrutiny for the issuance of an absentee ballot. Staff in nursing homes CANNOT be marking ballots. A certified person at each nursing home has to sign that family or trusted members helped a patient with the ballot.
SEIU members are working in such places all across the country-—and they vote Dem...always.!!!
If a person "needs help" with a ballot, they should not be voting. Having a relative in a nursing home is not a reason for anyone to double vote.