A Possible Solution to Electoral Fraud

[ryan]

The government gives everyone a voter number/code like similar to a voter I.D. number. On their website they just need to show each candidate in a column and a sequential I.D. number system below. This would also be the formal tally of votes.

So for anyone worried that their vote has not been counted for the right candidate, they can just look it up on the website.

Anyways, electronic vote systems like this might be more secure than the old style. Democracy stays secure.

 

[Cobalt]

How do you propose that your ID # can realistically be kept secret?

 

[ryan]

How do you propose that your ID # can realistically be kept secret?

Don't you already have voter I.D. numbers in the U.S.?

 

[Cobalt]

Not that can be associated with who or what a voter voted for (except in West Virginia, apparently).

Is your proposal really that the US puts an end to secret balloting? Your cure seems to be at least as bad as the implied disease.

 

[ryan]

Then let each person apply for a randomly chosen code from a list of codes that has enough for each registered voter. The government would only know that one code was used for each registered voter.

 

[Tigers!]

Nice attempt but does not eliminate votes for hire.

 

[JonA]

Then let each person apply for a randomly chosen code from a list of codes that has enough for each registered voter. The government would only know that one code was used for each registered voter.

Still doesn't address the objection.

The last person I want knowing who I voted for is Uncle Sam.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

How about you use paper ballots and then have people count them?

Is that too complex?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

How about you use paper ballots and then have people count them?

Is that too complex?

Or maybe we could admit that voter fraud is about a big deal as TB is in the US and stop trying to fix a problem that has been fixed already.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

How about you use paper ballots and then have people count them?

Is that too complex?

Or maybe we could admit that voter fraud is about a big deal as TB is in the US and stop trying to fix a problem that has been fixed already.

Pfft. While you're at it, why don't you just take the duct tape and plastic sheeting off your windows and come out from underneath your bed because you heard that someone on the other side of the planet might have gotten ebola?

And you call yourself an American.

 

[Elixir]

Then let each person apply for a randomly chosen code from a list of codes that has enough for each registered voter. The government would only know that one code was used for each registered voter.

Still doesn't address the objection.

The last person I want knowing who I voted for is Uncle Sam.

Agree! I sure don't want Trump to know I voted against him if he gets elected. He is too much like Hitler, and we all know what happened to those who opposed HIM.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

The government gives everyone a voter number/code like similar to a voter I.D. number. On their website they just need to show each candidate in a column and a sequential I.D. number system below. This would also be the formal tally of votes.

So for anyone worried that their vote has not been counted for the right candidate, they can just look it up on the website.

Anyways, electronic vote systems like this might be more secure than the old style. Democracy stays secure.

Boss: You will vote for Trump and you will show me your ID number to prove it. Otherwise you're fired.

All vote-validation schemes fall victim to this problem.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

We should simply enact a national registration card that is Federally Approved, a passport of sorts but just for Domestic purposes and would qualify as ID for all elections in every state, but North Carolina. The card would be free, the program would cost only $5.4 billion, and we would probably ditch it for a better card system using newer technology by the next election.

Until then, if you don't need an ID to take a shit, why do you need an ID to vote for one?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Nevermind, my super awesome idea lacks in the super and awesome categories.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

How do you propose that your ID # can realistically be kept secret?

Same way you'd keep your social security number secret.

Come to think of it, this would probably be a lot easier if you just used your SS number as a voting ID number and then look up your vote by SS number on the website to make sure. We already kind of do this with parking tickets and tax forms.

 

[Jayjay]

One idea... feel free to knock it down.

In the voting booth, the machine generates a random letter for each candidate (could also be a PIN code, or something else... point is that it should be short enough to remember). It would look like this:

1. Hillary Clinton (P)
2. Donald Trump (H)
3. Gary Johnson (X)

You get a receipt that includes a ballot number (a long number or string, could be a QR code), and the letter corresponding to the choice you made, but not the actual vote. There is an online service, where you can check based on ballot ID, what the letter was. To check his own vote, the voter just needs to memorize the letter he voted for in the booth, and he can verify that it is counted as such. Vote buyign is discouraged because there is no way for anyone else to know for sure which candidate the vote was for, even if the vote buyer were to obtain the receipt from the voter.

Would this work?

 

[Tigers!]

How about you use paper ballots and then have people count them?

Is that too complex?

For the yanks apparently so.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

How about you use paper ballots and then have people count them?

Is that too complex?

How about ballot box stuffing?

 

[Elixir]

How about you use paper ballots and then have people count them?

Is that too complex?

Or maybe we could admit that voter fraud is about a big deal as TB is in the US and stop trying to fix a problem that has been fixed already.

Nah. Best idea is to just appoint someone to arbitrate it all. Like say, His Majesty Donald Trump.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

How about you use paper ballots and then have people count them?

Is that too complex?

How about ballot box stuffing?

There are a hundred really easy ways to keep that from happening. The easiest by far is to log the ID numbers of each ballot cast and the name and voter registration number of the person who cast it.