Election Integrity Proposal

A Proposal

How to maintain confidence and integrity in elections

(at all levels – local, state, and federal)

1. The political chairs of each state work together and select a list of election workers to verify

counts and maintain chain of custody of all cast ballots -24x7

2. The duties of these workers are:

a. Jointly (one worker from each political party) guard each ballot box

b. Operate the vehicles that transports ballots from ballot box locations to the vote

counting facilities including maintaining vehicle trip logs

c. Transport and validate the ballot box locations

d. Manually count ballots before machine counts and validate machine counts and

manual counts agree. Maintain appropriate associated count logs

3. The duties of the state political chairs:

a. Agree on locations of all ballot boxes

b. Agree on schedule for transferring ballots from boxes to vote counting facilities

c. Agree on official vote counting machines (should be USA manufactured & software)

d. Establish and agree on “flow” (should be one-way only) of votes through vote counting

facilities (see diagram below)

e. Maintain custody of manual/machine count verification logs

f. Move all counted ballots to separate area to avoid multiple counting of votes –

separating physically by top-of-ticket political party

g. Place ballot boxes at practical locations to facility voter access

h. Staff the vote counting facility 24x7

i. Purge voting registries of

i. Dead persons

ii. Persons no longer resident in the state

iii. Voter ID (unique ID, State ID for non-drivers, or State driver’s license – Calif????)

4. State and federal government duties

a. Separate local and state ballots from federal ballots – two physical ballots, possibly

color code

b. Program counting machines to separate machine ballots counted into three groups

(based on top of ticket party selection)

i. Democrat

ii. Republican

iii. Void

c. Deploy state or federal national guard to protect election ballot boxes, counting

centers, transport of ballot boxes to/from box locations & vote counting centers, and

election workers 24x7

d. Maintain a national death registry

5. Steps associated with remote voting

a. Establishing requirements for remote voting

b. Only send out remote voting ballots based on a legal request (age, residence, etc.)

c. Retain on file signatures of those requesting a ballot

This is a proposed flow to regain the trust in our election process. This is intended for consideration by State Legislatures with a cc "informational to the US Congress". The election process is a constitutional duty of the states. Every effort should be used to ensure the US Congress does not violate the states rights.

The risks associated with elections can be placed into 3 categories:

1. Prior to the actual citizen voting - highest risk for manipulation

a. Citizen voters not properly identified - leads to illegal voting by non-qualified citizens

b. Unsolicited ballots being mailed and harvested

c. Lack of oversight of ballot printing

d. Extended voting dates and times for final legal vote acceptance - extensions give parties time

to collect an estimated number of votes to change the outcome of an election

2. During counting at vote counting centers - lower risk

a. Irregularities in voting machine software

b. Intentional irregularities by bad actors in the vote counting process

3. At the voting center by in-person voting - lowest risk

a. Higher degree of voter ID verification

b. Intentional irregularities by bad actors - one person voting multiple times

Here is a link to how Washington State conducts its elections using "Mail in Ballots", quite successfully

Link

Dialog is appreciated, and for any of you that can reach your state legislatures or congressional elected officials, That would be a good start. Time is of the essence. US Congress is pushing HR1 and S1 that addresses election processes.