One cannot help but thing of the film "Vendetta" and the connotation that it brings.
Regardless of the outcome of today's various and sundry races and ballot issues "it" will begin. By this time tomorrow there will come the accusations, the tooth-gnashing, demands for recounts and lawsuits. The "found" ballots in trunks, attics and where ever else they are "stashed". The lost ballots of the disenfranchised. The heavy, dirty, ugly side of our democratic form of government.
We need to find a solid, honest form of one person (see, I can be PC), one vote. Biometric scanner comes to mind. Do it when you register, do it when you vote and any other votes by that biometric entity would be invalid and that person marked for investigation. A person could contrive to register multiple times, but a comparison matrix would eliminate all duplicate biometric signatures and mark that person for investigation.
And re-counts should be done by an out of state team of certified counters and the expense shouldered by the person who demanded it. These should NOT be allowed to drag out for weeks, months and/or years.
Again, these may all be pipe dreams. The ideas are definitely outside the "norm" and would require a major paradigm shift (ugh - old buzz phrase hauntings) by ALL the politicians AND the public. Any attempt to positively identify a voter has always met with stiff resistance and you have to wonder why, unless something shady was/is going on. But it needs to be done.
Internet voting is too rife with complications to ever be practicable for the foreseeable future. But something needs done to stop all the grief that follows any election these days.
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