Our voting mess

Ohio’s voting laws require voters to be residents of Ohio for at least 30 days immediately before the election. How can they then allow voters to register and vote on the same day between Sept. 30 and Oct 6? How will anyone know whether that person will be a resident between Oct. 5 and Nov. 4?
The current voting registration debacle swirling throughout Ohio and accusations of fraud in other states does not need to happen. What ever happened to common sense? It’s easy…take identification with you and go to your polling place to register to vote. Polling workers put your information into a database which can then be verified through other state databases. Simple! No harm, no foul. Those databases already exist.
Or can we use this crises as yet another tool for government intrusion. It happens every time we refuse to use common sense to solve a problem.
1. Identify a problem
2. Create a crisis
3. The public demands government intervention
4. Another piece of privacy dissolves.

WWUSD- What would Uncle Sam do?

Well, let me see. Why not use technology?
We can go to our doctor’s office to register to vote!
Your doctor can program an RFID chip with not only your medical information, but your voting information as well. Then inject that chip just under your skin just like the vet does for your dog.
When you vote on election day you just show up at your polling place where the voting machine will verify you by reading your RFID chip.
If the RFID chip can’t be found by the voting booth it won’t allow you to vote.
If more that one RFID chip is found the booth won’t allow you to vote.
Every booth will be connected to a state wide database where it can instantly record your vote, which will prevent a second vote from the same voter.
Voters will be allowed to vote at any polling place.

We can even implement a paper trail. After a voter casts a ballot the voting booth offers a receipt with the voter’s RFID voting information. The voter then takes that receipt and drops it into a ballot box.

Election results will be instantaneous and can be cross checked to make sure every vote was counted.

Additionally, with RFID those who find it necessary, will be able to track everywhere we go.

Sounds spookily Orwellian!!!!!