{"id":87,"date":"2008-11-04T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/04\/election-reform-3passport-style-based-voter-registration\/"},"modified":"2014-02-25T12:22:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T16:22:45","slug":"election-reform-3passport-style-based-voter-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/election-reform-3passport-style-based-voter-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Reform #3:Passport-style based Voter Registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3 Reasons<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">1. Voter registration is out of control.<\/span><br \/>\nACORN anyone? Here&#8217;s an alternative:<\/p>\n<p>Voter registration using a state-based photo-id passport-style registered document with an embossed seal for each election.<\/p>\n<p>Once registered with a verified residence as a citizen in any state, registration may only be transfer to another state, with no new registrations allowed, only transfers.  Re-registering in any state, while registered in another is against federal law. Moving interstate requires you turn in your prior ID to your origin state prior to obtaining a new ID in your new state.<\/p>\n<p>All votes must be traced to an election official who is liable for the validity of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>When a vote is to be cast, each ballot is embossed sealed, as well as the voter&#8217;s ID document for the citizen who has voted. The district clerk will initial inside the seals, tying the ballot and the voter to the district official.<\/p>\n<p>Fraudulent votes found in a district invalidates that entire district for the next election.<\/p>\n<p>Absentee ballots require 2 seals &#8211;   a designated remote official&#8217;s seal, ie military payroll officers etc. and a receipt seal from the election office who embosses the seal on the ballot and then initials at the designated place.<br \/>\nThe remote official is to use their seal on the voter&#8217;s ID document.<\/p>\n<p>A single optical paper ballot style is required nationwide.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">2. Campaign finance is a nightmare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Requires a financial participation of constituencies, and stop fraudulent financing.<\/p>\n<p>Only registered voters may donate to valid campaigns and all funds are identified with the voter ID.<br \/>\nThere is a donation limit on each voter registration ID.<br \/>\nWhen an ID limit is reached no more funds will be accepted.<br \/>\nThat total is to be divided only among campaigns at any level.<br \/>\nCity, state and national parties are treated as single generic campaigns for each party.<\/p>\n<p>Your total electoral contributions may only be divided among those various campaigns, and the national campaign contribution  portions cannot exceed more than 25% of the dedicated state portions.<\/p>\n<p>3. Money = power &amp; influence, and negates the idea of equality at the polls, because it weights the influence to &#8216;purchase&#8217; more votes.<\/p>\n<p>National official campaigns (President &amp; VP) must reflect the state&#8217;s interest in the campaign, similar to the electoral count.<br \/>\nIndividuals donate through state parties for national official campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>National official campaign spending in any one state cannot exceed the amount of money donated from that state, and dedicated towards that purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 Reasons 1. Voter registration is out of control. ACORN anyone? Here&#8217;s an alternative: Voter registration using a state-based photo-id passport-style registered document with an embossed seal for each election. Once registered with a verified residence as a citizen in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/election-reform-3passport-style-based-voter-registration\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[51,140],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-election","tag-reform"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}