When politics triumphs over common sense, chaos reigns.

American politics is about power and control defined as the exchange of money for the power to influence the use of government force.

July 30, 2017 post entitled “A New American Way???” suggests ways to drain the SWAMP.

It was recently suggested that the way to try to eliminate voter fraud would be to go back to paper ballots. The suggestion was that two paper ballots would be generated by each voter.  Each voter would be given an election voting ID and that ID would be printed on the ballot that would be counted and also a second ballot given to the voter.  The problem that this observer sees with this system is that if and when there is any problem with the election, each voter could be called back and the election judges would be able to identify how each person voted.  This could and will be abused.

Voter ID would be better, but then a political party usually Democrats would object because they would not be able to steal elections. Of course, that excuse would not be used.

What if each voter’s head and shoulder photograph was taken similar to your driver’s license renewal and automatically time stamped. A refusal to be photographed would prevent that person from voting.  If the excuse became that the photo equipment did not work, then the instruction to the election judges would be to manually do the photography and time stamping.  Failure to follow these instructions by election officials would be an arrest and upon conviction a 10 year prison sentence and a $10,000 fine per incident.  With current facial recognition software, thousands of photos can be quickly scanned.  Illegal voting would be punishable by 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine per incident.  Therefore, if some dumb joker gets caught voting three times, it costs that person 30 years in prison and $30,000.  With penalties this severe, it is hoped that no one is stupid enough to commit voter fraud.  Prevention not punishment is the goal and preferable.

If you think the idea to prevent voter fraud is good, then please keep contacting your elected officials until they finally agree to implement voter fraud prevention.