[–] 15033715? 0 points 11 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago
Here's what I believe would be an ideal scenario for voating,
You walk into a voating booth on the national voating holiday. Like the DMV, you stand in line to get your picture taken. You hold up your Voater picture ID card and place your non-inked thumb into the opening on the card next to your picture. The high definition photos are uploaded to a national repository than anyone can view.
After your photo you go to a booth to voat. You fill out a ballot and drop that ballot into a 200lbs sealed metal container with a small slot hole in the top. The container contains a GPS unit inside which continuously broadcasts its location to another national database that anyone can log into. The container contains an ID # and a counter is visible from the outside. As soon as you drop your ballot in the container the counter goes up by 1. On your way out they ink your thumb and hand you a receipt showing the time of day, the ID # for the container you put your ballot in (so you can track it) and the current number of ballots in that container.
The containers have inner seals that when broken will send out an alert with current GPS location and ballot count at the time of opening. Opening of the ballot boxes will be recorded and uploaded to the website. Once opened, the voats in that box are counted, tallied and sent to the public website so anyone can clearly see the results of all the ballots in that box.
This would allow the average citizen to review every person who dropped a ballot in that box and the amount of ballots at any particular time in that box. Any anomalies, such as the box going from 100 ballots to 300 ballots in a matter of 10 minutes, would be easily spotted by the average person.
If the results of any box is contested, the people that initially put ballots in that box will have an opportunity to participate in a revoat and just like jury duty, will be excused from work to participate in the revoat. Revoats will follow the same process, except for the revoat counts will happen immediately after the the voating is closed at the same location and will be livestreamed. Each voat will be run on a conveyor belt and counted during livestream. Every single voat will be able to be reviewed publicly.
[–] 15045286? 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
It's a good idea but won't work. There many thousands of polling stations around the country in tiny towns and rural areas where such expensive equipment could not be funded or maintained.
It's a tough problem to solve because voter fraud is so easy to do and hide.
[–] 15030280? 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Absentee ballots are needed for some others, the question comes as how to positive ID them and set a definite postmark after which they are not accepted. Definite need for picture ID that is backed by a birth certificate, citizenship papers or some other federally recognized certification. Ballots need to have some way to track to one legitimate voter and time stamped with a scannable image indicating the polling place and a sequence number when the ballot is entered into the scanner.
[–] 15033935? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
There's so much technology. If ID was photo ID with a pin # known only to voter. Voter could fill out his ballot, text a number using g his pin #. A return code could be sent back which voter would include in the absentee ballot along with voter ID # found on his ID card.
[–] 15035310? ago
Sounds like a good idea so therefore would generate an outcry of "VOTER SUPPRESSION" !
[–] 15034073? ago
Same at voting place. Have photo ID which we swipe and enter a PIN # before we get the ballot. If you wipe out all voter registration now and begin the new system by the beginning of the year everyone would register on their birthday with passport or birth certificate and be ready for national elections. You could even have that chip in the drivers licence.
[–] 15034459? 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Require absentee ballots be notarized. Require commanding officer (or someone) sign instead of notary for the military.
[–] 15036835? ago
Good idea, but that doesn't stop them from just throwing them away. Certified Return Receipt on each mail in ballot maybe??