Purging voter rolls of eligible voters and voter suppression. Mostly done in the South to ethnic minorities. There are republican machine areas in Lehigh and Northampton county and there has been shenanigans in the past.
Elections are only stolen when the margin of victory is less than 1%. In that case it is a coin flip anyway on who won.
Barcoded paper ballots seem like a good way of preventing fraud in my opinion.
Good answer, sir, but I still feel as if I'm trying to hunt a live dinosaur, looking around for a credible big city or state machine run by Republicans; not only the ones that count the ballots, but also control city and state jobs and do other expensive favors (city and state contracts, for example, to adherents of the machine--that tunnel in Boston and that bridge in Minneapolis were this sort of payoff, and we all know what happened there) so as to keep voters loyal.
I dunno why even barcoded paper ballots are necessary; all my own life, in Nebraska, we've used those things resembling SAT examinations in high school; rows of ovals in which one uses a pencil to darken the oval of one's choice. Also, voter identification should be required.
And third, election returns within states should be revealed all at the same time, city and rural. I'm really tired, for example, of St. Louis manufacturing votes after the rural Missouri numbers are in, so as to overcome any shortfalls. Ditto for Chicago and downstate Illinois. The results should all be released at the exact same time.
I'm still trying to figure out where St. Louis "found" those 200,000 votes that elected Claire McCaskill to the U.S. Senate in 2006, for example. Two hundred thousand "votes" that were released after St. Louis had claimed all totals were in, and after the results of Missouri outside of St. Louis had been reported.
I'm also in favor of uniform voting times, one twelve or fourteen hour period that covers all 48 continental states, with adjustments for Alaska and Hawaii. And no early voting; that gives malicious hands more time to tamper with things.
No machines. I voted by machine in Allentown, and I didn't trust it. A piece of paper.
