May offer some ideas for upping election integrity.
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Regular readers know that I’ve been attentive to to issues surrounding election integrity … especially voter registration lists and ballot verification.
With those issues top-of-mind, I had a couple of relevant experiences in the past couple of days.
First, I got a carpet-bomb email from a friend who was updating his Christmas card list.
He was reaching out to make sure that everybody on the list was still alive and that he had current addresses.
Obviously, he didn’t want to waste postage sending cards to former addresses … and, he didn’t want to inadvertently send cards to anybody who has successfully concluded their earthly tours of duty.
I suggested that he might want to start helping election boards clean up their registration lists.
He politely, but emphatically declined.
So, I’m left with his idea: Why not mail out verification letters to everybody on the voter registration list … to their address of record … mark them “do not forward … include a postage-free return postcard … require them to send the signed postcard back … if they don’t send it back (signed) flag them on the voter rolls.
Then, if or when they try to vote (or request an absentee ballot), make them re-register to vote — with some legit forms of ID, of course.
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The 2nd experience was a real life case of identity verification done right.
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