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RAZD Member Posts: 19478 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: Member Rating: 2.1
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There are several things we could do to improve our voting system, and with the last year democrat primaries and the general election I think it may be time to have a national conversation on this topic. I'll start: There are three main facets: voter's rights, verifying voters and verifying vote counts. Voter's Rights We need a voter bill of rights:
Use of the primaries and the electoral college as the final counting system for the ranked votes has three benefits: (a) it does not require amendment to the constitution, (b) it gives states time to resolve anomalies and even run another vote if necessary, and (c) this shifts the media circus from election night to the day of the convention or the electoral college. This shift allows states time to validate and recount the ballots. Verifying Voters Voter fraud is rare and usually insignificant to the elections, but this is the reason we have voter photo ID laws in some states, however the laws currently are more about suppression of votes than preventing voter fraud. The reason that we KNOW photo ID laws are not about double voting voter fraud, but about restricting votes is because:
This is voter suppression, ie election fraud, pure and simple. Thus the voter's rights for every citizen to get a federal photo citizen ID, and a federal requirement that any state that requires photo IDs should accept the citizen ID. Alternatively all paper ballots could have a cover sheet to verify the voter with address and thumbprint turned in when ballot picked up. Verifying the vote counts People have a right to know that their vote has been counted in the way they voted. The easiest way I see to accomplish this is to have a random code on every ballot with a copy for the voter to take home and look up on the tabulated votes and see their vote is correctly documented. The voting commissions also record the number of voters so that "votes" can't be added to the total. Getting There This can be initiated through petitions to governments or through ballot initiatives: see https://ballot.org/ Enjoy by our ability to understand Rebel☮American☆Zen☯Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. • • • Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click) • • •
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