Originally Posted by Margaritaville

Good points, Rick, but as we saw after the 2020 election, even with in person paper voting, an absurdly large minority of the country will still think the election was fraudulent or "stolen" if their chosen candidate loses. The seal has been broken on that in our society, and I don't know how we come back from it. I voted for Trump and I'm not ashamed of it, but I can also admit that he lost fair and square. The tin foil hat crowd will just continue to come up with asinine explanations how ballots were moved in the middle of the night or whatever and Trump actually won. It's truly frightening how many people believe that. Last poll I saw was 30-40% of the country IIRC.

I agree that the internet is always ripe for hacking, especially from players like China, Russia, and N. Korea, and online votes are harder to track, but I'm thinking some sort of authenticated SSL system like the IRS uses would work. Frankly, I think paper is easier to manipulate, especially mailed or dropped paper.

Yes, ID needs to be shown to vote. In person, that's easy. Mail in should require a notary and a copy of one's ID. "Signature matching" is voodoo science. It kicks out legitimate votes, and lets in fraudulent votes. We also need a way to keep illegal immigrants from voting, especially in states like IL and CA that give them drivers licenses and welfare benefits and treat them like those here legally.