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I feel like it is time that we got together and proposed techniques that would make voter fraud much more difficult than it is currently. The talking heads are obsessed with voter ID and signature verification but security goes well beyond that. The ballots themselves must be secure. They should be treated like checks and duplicates should be prevented so I'd like to start with that as the first concept.
1. Each ballot must have a unique identifier along with a clear chain of custody. Boxes found in the back of Sam's car can not be accepted. The election authorities must know how many mail-in ballots they printed and how many got mailed out. They must know how many in-person ballots got printed and how many were handed to people at the polls. There is no excuse whatsoever for accepting ballots AFTER the polls close. We saw in a number of states, boxes of ballots being "found" days after the election. Apparently, the search continued until enough ballots voting for Biden were found to beat Trump. If you know how many you sent, you know how many you expect back and you can NEVER count more. The key to all financial and inventory applications is counting. Count everything and never accept duplicate serial numbers. There is never an excuse for a polling site to cast more ballots than they had people through the door unless there was some spoilage and the original ballot had to be discarded. ALL paperwork should account for discrepancies. All physical ballots MUST have chain of custody clearly defined. Drop boxes should not be allowed. US Mail only and Mail in ballots should never be received at ANY address except the one where they will be counted. Us Mail has the ability to scan and count incoming/outgoing mail and we should utilize their systems as a sanity check. We even need to SAVE and count the number of envelopes received in the mail. The number of envelopes can NEVER be less than the number of ballots. It is all these counts which prevent the physical duplication of ballots and the multiple scanning of a single ballot. The tabulating software must also disallow duplicate serial numbers.
2. Transferring results to the mother ship. Since the tabulating machines should never be networked, we need a way to collect data from them and transfer it to the central counting facility periodically throughout the day. In order to secure this, there needs to be at least three separate reporting methods and results from all three MUST match. For example, to facilitate reporting, initial counts can be collected via thumb drive and uploaded for each machine to a secure FTP site. The polling facility can produce a summary report separately and that can be emailed. The scan details should be uploaded separately AND physically collected on thumb drives which are delivered via messenger to the mother ship.
I didn't go into sufficient detail to create actual procedures but they will ne required. Please add comments to the first two ideas and add additional ideas as well.
Thanks.
1. Each ballot must have a unique identifier along with a clear chain of custody. Boxes found in the back of Sam's car can not be accepted. The election authorities must know how many mail-in ballots they printed and how many got mailed out. They must know how many in-person ballots got printed and how many were handed to people at the polls. There is no excuse whatsoever for accepting ballots AFTER the polls close. We saw in a number of states, boxes of ballots being "found" days after the election. Apparently, the search continued until enough ballots voting for Biden were found to beat Trump. If you know how many you sent, you know how many you expect back and you can NEVER count more. The key to all financial and inventory applications is counting. Count everything and never accept duplicate serial numbers. There is never an excuse for a polling site to cast more ballots than they had people through the door unless there was some spoilage and the original ballot had to be discarded. ALL paperwork should account for discrepancies. All physical ballots MUST have chain of custody clearly defined. Drop boxes should not be allowed. US Mail only and Mail in ballots should never be received at ANY address except the one where they will be counted. Us Mail has the ability to scan and count incoming/outgoing mail and we should utilize their systems as a sanity check. We even need to SAVE and count the number of envelopes received in the mail. The number of envelopes can NEVER be less than the number of ballots. It is all these counts which prevent the physical duplication of ballots and the multiple scanning of a single ballot. The tabulating software must also disallow duplicate serial numbers.
2. Transferring results to the mother ship. Since the tabulating machines should never be networked, we need a way to collect data from them and transfer it to the central counting facility periodically throughout the day. In order to secure this, there needs to be at least three separate reporting methods and results from all three MUST match. For example, to facilitate reporting, initial counts can be collected via thumb drive and uploaded for each machine to a secure FTP site. The polling facility can produce a summary report separately and that can be emailed. The scan details should be uploaded separately AND physically collected on thumb drives which are delivered via messenger to the mother ship.
I didn't go into sufficient detail to create actual procedures but they will ne required. Please add comments to the first two ideas and add additional ideas as well.
Thanks.
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