TO BEAT CYBER WARFARE IN FUTURE ELECTIONS, GO GUERILLA, GO ANALOG -- Part 2

[ancianita]

The U.S. Constitution is not just a piece of paper. Yet the Constitution can only be a living document when Americans provide the uncorrupted evidence of its life in our presidential elections.

We're a big country, with constant voting "irregularities" that get legally shunted aside in preference for closure and winner-take-all pronouncements. Capitalists like the Koch brothers have eyed this system of regulating their influence and control; they have claimed that "constitutional majority rule is a failure." That's on the record.

Thus, we now live under a minority rule vote that tyrannizes 80% of those who did not vote for Trump. We are also under national security threat to have that happen in future elections.

U.S. presidential elections need restructuring so that they are The People's paper trail evidence of the viability of the U.S. Constitution and the majority rule of this Big D Democracy that we are in jeopardy of losing. If we haven't lost it already.

Based what the FBI proves is the cyberwar election threat to US national security, ban electronic voting. That alone could be a problem of their standing before the courts.

The ban could be levied by the Justice Department and/or enforced through the courts.

The ban could be applied to either the 220 counties of the last presidential election, or to all the counties of the U.S. The Department of Justice and attendant court orders can claim this is our only protection against server and vote hijackings of the 2016 election. As in the case of the caged children, it can have a deadline for preparations and implementation at county levels.

Here's how the county-based election system can save electronic hijackings. I'll apply my guerrilla model to all the U.S. counties, not just to the 220 counties I listed in Part 1.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210909150

1. Use serial numbered, thumb printed tear-off paper ballots in all 3,142 counties. Paper ballot making isn't any more costly than machine maintenance and programming for receipts that now exist.

2. Vote only within county structure only -- not in a single partisan drawn district, ward or precinct. The site of voting is in the county seat building.

3. ANY in-person voter qualifies to vote with a state or driver's license or other ID, the usual proofs of address, with their signature and thumbprint on both the main ballot and tear-off section. Crosschecked rolls or other voter rolls are not to be used to qualify a voter. Voting by mail can suffice with the same qualifiers. I haven't worked out the details on how to apply for mail-in ballots.

4. Timeline: all counties can collect votes during the same time period they have allowed for early voting.

5. At the end of election day votes are counted by live, continuous camera footage in each county seat, with legal observers, until the votes are audibly totaled, paper counts certified by each county's commissioner.

6. While still on the same continuous camera, all county ballot locked boxes are loaded onto security truck(s), the same used by banks and businesses, and are driven to the National Archives, 700 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC. There are other important national events, but this is a particularly important national security event.

7. Certified counts of the lock boxes are delivered to the head of the FBI or his designated agents in charge of vote security.

8. No deadline for reporting to the public is required. Our election is complete when the head of the FBI announces the national results.

Voting structures and personnel already exist and can stay within current personnel budgets. Overall, this election method will eliminate middle men. It won't likely be any more costly to our national security than the billions that our highly threatened electronic voting system costs us right now.

It's doable and overall, accurate and tamper-proof, unless some trucks get criminally hijacked.

Please know, before you lay out what I hope is constructive criticism, that I've tried, at least, to provide a tamper-proof system to the third largest country on the planet which has already been hit by a cyber act of war and continues to be threatened.

We have to fix our national security threat before the next election. We have to try.

Lay it on me.

You needn’t be gentle, but please be informed and constructive.

[fierywoman]

1. BRAVISSIMO!

[ancianita]

2. Oh, thank you! Just trying to offer usable, cost effective solutions for our national security.

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

3. There are over 10 million people

in Los Angeles county. I'm pretty sure they could not handle millions of people voting in one place even with early voting.

Thumbprints? Kind of defeats the secret ballot. Plus the cost of ink plus extra people trained in fingerprinting. Who decides if the fingerprint is readable?

Who pays for the cost of transport of the locked boxes?
Are there enough armored trucks in the country to handle the enormity of this?
What about Hawaii and Alaska?
Does the National Archives have the room and the personnel to handle all of this?

Your heart is in the right place though.

[ancianita]

4. Thank you for the questions. Yes, the biggest counties need the most time, and so longer time,

and more locked boxes.

So how long is early voting in LA these days? Doesn't increasing time seem worth a shot?

Re thumbprints... Why should it be secret, anyway. It's done in a booth, thumb printed and signed, then one folded ballot is dropped in the box -- the cameras are mostly on the box, not over the booths -- then the voter leaves with his/her tear-off receipt and a blue or red thumb.

Money for electronic machine buys can pay for the security trucks and truck personnel. Voting personnel who previously worked in districts can rotate in and out on the one day they usually work during election season.

Re trucks in the country ... Are there enough armored trucks to service the many banks in every county now? If so, how are ballots different from money? It's like boxing one dollar bill from each voter in the county.

Re HI and AK -- secured planes?

There are regional archives and their personnel all over the country who can be transferred in to help with the storage in DC. Storage of lock boxes is related to how the FBI official announcement stands (if the election is contested, but how many presidential elections really are, right?); after an appropriate waiting period, ballots can be destroyed and boxes returned to the counties.

Sounds unwieldly, but consider how many more thousands of districts in the country screw up the counting, sending and storage issues themselves -- called "irregularities," which are plead against but not adequately addressed, from precinct to state commissioner of voting.

Plus, lock boxes don't get hackable or suffer program glitches and info "erosions" as do electronic hard drives and servers.

[ancianita]

5. Forgot to add that lock boxes and their attached certificates would have identical serial numbers.