We made the Iraqis dip a finger in ink to show they’d already voted.
I have no problem with applying that rule to the US elections. Show ID, all vote on the same day unless valid reason for absentee, if absentee, have it notarized. And dip a finger in indelible ink.
While not a bad solution on paper (ha, get it), it does have a few flaws. Notably, you still have to ensure that the Voter ID implementation is checked against something substantial. As mentioned in another conversation, California hands IDs out to illegals already, you know democrats will do this in any blue/purple state if there was a Federal Photo ID requirement. You essentially need a Census that excludes illegals as Donald Trump is trying to do, and you need to check IDs against that Census because otherwise illegals could still vote one way or another.
This also requires heavy restrictions on absentee voting which you'd have a hard time passing. And even if you could get those, for this to simply work, you need all absentee voting to happen early, then assemble all absentee ballots and compile a full database of all citizens who voted by mail. Then doublecheck in-person voters against this database to ensure that nobody voted both by-mail and in person.
Alternatively, the aforementioned voter list which seems to be a solid (albeit certainly imperfect) way to solve multiple Voter ID shortcomings. At that point, the whole ink thing is a little bit needless however. Either way, either method's better than the nothing you have currently.
We made the Iraqis dip a finger in ink to show they’d already voted. I have no problem with applying that rule to the US elections. Show ID, all vote on the same day unless valid reason for absentee, if absentee, have it notarized. And dip a finger in indelible ink.
While not a bad solution on paper (ha, get it), it does have a few flaws. Notably, you still have to ensure that the Voter ID implementation is checked against something substantial. As mentioned in another conversation, California hands IDs out to illegals already, you know democrats will do this in any blue/purple state if there was a Federal Photo ID requirement. You essentially need a Census that excludes illegals as Donald Trump is trying to do, and you need to check IDs against that Census because otherwise illegals could still vote one way or another.
This also requires heavy restrictions on absentee voting which you'd have a hard time passing. And even if you could get those, for this to simply work, you need all absentee voting to happen early, then assemble all absentee ballots and compile a full database of all citizens who voted by mail. Then doublecheck in-person voters against this database to ensure that nobody voted both by-mail and in person.
Alternatively, the aforementioned voter list which seems to be a solid (albeit certainly imperfect) way to solve multiple Voter ID shortcomings. At that point, the whole ink thing is a little bit needless however. Either way, either method's better than the nothing you have currently.