Reply #11: Paper; pen; people and lots of cameras -- beginning to end.

[understandinglife]

Nation-wide, standard paper (counterfeit protected) ballot for all Federal elections.

Same format paper, but separate ballot, for State and local level elections.

National holiday for national election.

State holiday for State/local elections (separate from National election).

Signature across receipt stub and ballot (as suggested above).

Hand counted -- precinct level -- big enough room for lots of observers and CAMERAS.

Paper ledger tally sheet delivered to County by specially hired for the occasion UPS, FEDEXP, or other commercial shipping company with a police escort and as many citizens as would want to join the procession.

County tally on paper ledger. Same protocol for delivering county ledger to State capital.

State level tally, on paper.

All materials used -- registration, poll books, ballots and tally ledgers, archived (for National elections the archives should be part of the Library of Congress and a line-item in the annual federal budget would cover the cost of storage and retrieval for study purposes).

It should be a felony offense for any State Secretary of State to have any role in the campaign of any person other than their own campaign.

Peace.

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