From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Oh yea, more ideas I left out on the Registration/Verification process.

ALL states voter rolls should be computer cross checked to find duplicate
registrations that should be questioned, such as the reported duplicate
names in Florida and NY, and Florida and Wisconsin, as well as other
states. People should be required to only register in one place.  If
they're not sure where they will be, vote via absentee ballot.  Right now,
each state is basically an island unto itself.  Heck, even here in TN,
there's really no cross county checks to see if someone hasn't registered
in 2 counties at opposite ends of the state.  They may own property at both
ends, but that doesn't entitle them to register and vote in each area. 
While one could argue that they should be able to vote in local matters,
since they have property, but that opens the door to multiple votes on
national elections.

Voter rolls should be cross checked against US Postal records for invalid
mailing addresses.  No "Parks" as mailing address, no Vacant
Lots, no "space between 2 houses that are 4 numbers apart", etc.

All SS numbers should be cross checked to assure that they are valid, and
match the voters name.  Those that don't, should be contacted to clarify
who is who (identity theft would probably be helped by this too).

--
Glenn M.


"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
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> OK, I've thought about this for some time, looking at how things are done
in
> other countries, and adding that to our election process....here are my
> ideas, open for thoughts here (and why would I think that nobody would
have
> any thoughts on this...).
>
> Our constitution states that election day will be the first Tuesday after
> the first Monday.  Keeping that as the base framework, I'd like to see
> something like this enacted for national elections:
>
> 1).  The polls open at Midnight on Tuesday, election day, in every state,
as
> the time moves across the timezones.
>
> 2).  The polls close at Midnight on Wednesday (polls open for 24 hours in
> every state/location).  This will provide everyone the opportunity to fit
> into their schedule a time to vote.  Many times, even with employer
> agreement to let people have time off to vote, and with kids and such,
it's
> hard to get it in within that 24 hours, especially for those people who
have
> odd working hours.  This would afford them a much easier time to get to
the
> polls.
>
> 3).  Election day would be a National Holiday, banks closed, post office
> closed, businesses closed, like many do for Christmas, Easter, etc.
Again,
> this would allow even further participation for everyone.
>
> 4).  When the polls close, all election results are transmitted to a
central
> site, and NO results for any race are made public or available until noon
on
> Wednesday after the polls close.  There should be NO announcement of the
> results in any state/precinct or anywhere else while ANY election poling
> site is still open.  Announce the results like the old Muscular Dystrophy
> Telethon, a large Tote Board, where they push a button, the digits spin,
and
> the results are tallied and publicly available all at once.
>
> I firmly believe that announcing how a national candidate is doing on the
> east coast does influence people in states further west go or don't go to
> the poll.
>
> I also think that not enough consideration to the early announcement of
> Florida going to Gore in 2000 negatively influenced voters in the pan
handle
> of Florida to not even go to the polls.
>
> Also, announcing "exit poll predictions" as soon as polls close, can
> adversely influence voters still standing in line waiting to vote.  I
> believe that there were people in Ohio that didn't vote until 3 AM this
> morning.  Not right, not fair, totally wrong.
>
> OK, add to it, let's discuss it.
>
> --
> Glenn M.
>
>
>

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