| My proposal: - Free FEC federal voter ID (requires proof of citizenship) to be used ONLY for voting - Voter ID can be obtained early (age 16?) but DOB is connected to ID and you can’t vote before the legal age - Funded FEC program to register students for voter IDs at schools and colleges and teach them about voting - FEC to work with agencies like social security and IRS to determine if a voter is deceased (messy process). Likely deceased voters are communicated to the states ASAP. States must report confirmed deceased voters to FEC ASAP for recording. - Federal 2 week minimum early voting period - Federal funding and monitoring of elections requiring adequate polling site coverage of geographic areas, notification of residents, etc - Federal program to provide free shuttle to and from nearest polling station for residents without transit. Operated federally, states have no involvement. Contract with private transit as FEMA does. - Mail in ballots heavily restricted, must provide proof of absence or be military - Voting day is a national holiday - Federal ballots are separate and simplified to speed up counting/recounting (ballot complexity is often cited as a reason for slow counting) It will never happen but this would solve so many issues. |