Paperless voting persists in 24 states, though paper voting may coexist in some counties. The problem with paperless voting is that recounts and audits are impossible. The machines will return paper lists that match the initial results exactly. If a paperless machine breaks down, as has occurred countless times for a range of reasons, voters are forced to wait for a technician sent by the vendor to arrive. Said technician, distributed one to a county, may take a while to show up. In some isolated cases emergency paper ballots are provided.
Regarding the so-called epochal scandal caused by voter fraud abetted by ACORN, the event was called microscopic compared to the millions of other mishaps that have become so blatant in the last two presidential elections in particular. The Brennan Center found that an American is more likely to be struck by lightning than commit voter fraud.
Recall that in 2006, when ACORN scoured the country for voter fraud and found a pitiful dearth, several U.S. attorneys were fired for trumped-up reasons that occasioned a widely publicized scandal forcing Attorney General Anthony González to resign.
Last week the Brennan Center published the report Is America Ready? which includes a statistical map indicating readiness state by state.
New registrants, absentee or otherwise, will be required to prove their identities by means of a federal form of identification—a driver’s license of federal i.d., or a utility bill.
After Election Day, or Days, or months, the focus must turn to a more modern system, which Senator Hillary Clinton and the late Member of Congress Stephanie Tubbs-Jones worked on.. Newly elected secretaries of state must focus on improving the system. Moving to universal registration will solve many problems. (North Dakota allows walk-in voting; not registration is required.) A student may be automatically registered when he or she reaches age 18, or even before than, in high school. In other democracies the burden of registration is on the government rather than the citizens.
Pre-election litigation has spiked and will continue until Election Day.
Provisional ballots, if they exist at all, must be more than “placebo voting.”
More names exist on different lists than the total number of registered voters.
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