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Originally Posted by August
1. Disagree. People should not be forced to vote. Democracy only works with interested and willing participants making informed choices. Anyone who has to be forced into it is not going to care.
2. Agree.
3-4. Meh. IMO there shouldn't be any scheme involving electronic balloting that does not produce a completed hard copy which can be examined by the voter to ensure it's accuracy before they put it into the counting machine. Those we keep for a decade in case anyone wants to go back and perform their own recount.
6. Agree that rolls should be regularly purged.
8. Agree.
9. A decade would be better.
10. Sounds complicated and expensive. Also how does that work in areas with more than 25 miles between poll locations?
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As to required voting - Australia, for example, requires everyone to vote which equates to a voter turnout rate well above 90%, and this goes back to the 1920s. You won't get 100%, but the more you get, the less the possibility of shenanigans because there are fewer ballots you can play with.
No issue with voting spitting out a paper ballot record, but if it is electronic, it could easily be coded to spit out what the voter entered while electronically selecting a different candidate. The key is the source code needs to be auditable.
In regards to poll workers, it generally isn't an issue in less populated areas where everyone knows everyone else in the region.
Compare that to a place like Philly which has 700 polling places where the same workers have been in the same precincts forever and most of them are corrupt because of the Dem machine influence. You randomly assign poll workers to those precincts and now they don't know who they're working with so there is the unknown of whether or not coworkers are going to turn in crooked workers.
You make it so there is no possibility of collusion due to lack of familiarity amongst the people working and a smaller chance of corruption as a target of opportunity because you never know if the guy sitting next to you is going to report you for changing the count to favor one candidate over another.