Possible Voting Reforms

[MODU]

I support 1, 2,3, 6, 7, and 8.

I am a strong believer in that you must be a registered voter before showing up to the polling place on Nov 2nd.  To be more exact, there should be no registering past 9/30 of the given election year.  Last minute registrations only add to confusion.

Secondly, every state should allow the voter to register through their state tax forms.  That will eliminate most of the congestion at registration stations in the state, and it gives the states plenty of time to process the registrations (since tax forms are due earlier in the year).

And lastly, a photo ID must be displayed at the time of voting to cut down on fraud.  It is not an infringement on peoples rights to display an ID since all it is doing is verifying the registration information on the record and matches it with a the face of the voter. 

Those are my three big gripes about elections.  And I've already started my discussions on the flaws of provisional ballots in another thread.  I think that is the worst idea yet.

[MODU]

MODU, how can you support 3 yet not 4?

Easy.  You should vote where you are told to vote.  If your county has multiple pricints, then you go to the pricints which you are assigned. 

[MODU]

Oh, well, I'm the least opposed to 7, so I voted for that.

Why am I not surprised.

[MODU]

Finally by getting rid of registration all of the other issues go away.

I think just the opposite will happen.  Without registration, you have no way to track who has shown up to vote, nor if they are eligible to vote within that district.  Without registration, the potential for fraud will dramtically increase.

[MODU]

I'm all for "states rights" and what not, but when it comes to voting, I strongly believe there should be a national standard, which includes registration deadlines and IDs.  The states can decide how many voting sites to have and how long the sites can remain open on election day (and none of this provisional voting crap).  But there needs to be a standard to reduce confusion and the possibility of fraud.