just spoke with a guy who worked with as an election judge here in Dallas and came away feeling pretty damn good about the way Texas is doing things. Ex: the system shows if you received a mail-in ballot but try to vote in person. In order to vote, you must bring in that mail-in ballot so it can be destroyed and marked as invalid. He's had people not be able to vote because they threw away their ballot. Small sample size but a good dude we can feel good about being involved, at least at one precinct in Dallas, Tx.
Mail-in voting has to stop. It has created more problems than it has solved and it has opened the door to suspicions of voter fraud. Our cumbersome voting process in some states is exactly what happens when government gets involved.
We need a secure system where people vote on a secure machine that cannot be tampered with. It records the votes directly, and captures an image of the ballot at the same time. I know people want paper but paper ballots are the most unsecure form of voting. We can secure computerized voting and tie a vote to an individual securely and anonymously. Our banking system moves trillions of dollars around the world every day very securely. We can build a voting system that works the same way.
People argue that a system can be hacked. Yes, there is a chance someone could hack a computerized system, but there are ways to prevent that or at least detect it. Like I said, money transfer systems like the one the fed uses are extremely secure. We can build such a system and eliminate almost all fraud.
In fact, I would argue there is no reason to connect voting machines to the internet at all. Each machine tabulates vote totals which can them be copied consolidated and reported securely offline and we would still get the vote counts in within a day.
What is going on in Arizona, California, Pennsylvania and other states is the result of allowing mail in voting and paper ballots. No one trusts this process.