*Americans, not you other folks...you all can do as you like with your countries
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Elections ought happen on election day, in-person. No by mail, on-line, or drop box hooey.
The polls should open at midnight and close at midnight. No exceptions.
No picture ID, no vote. No exceptions.
No registering to vote on the day of, on-line, or by mail (get thee to the Registrar's office well in advance). Better yet: all native-born and naturalized citizens are, as a matter of course, registered to vote. Then, all citizens need is a picture ID.
Voting is for citizens (native-born or legitimately naturalized), not guests or illegals. No friggin' exceptions.
Paper ballots only. No exceptions.
No behind closed doors activity of any kind. No exceptions.
All votes are deposited by the voters in a lock box. The box remains locked till the count begins, once the polls close. No exceptions.
The ballots are counted three times, by three different teams, in full public view: if any count disagrees with the others, start the count over with a new team. Keep recounting, with a new team each time, till all three counts match. No exceptions.
Armed security (preferably libertarians who hate everyone) ought be present to beat the ever-livin' crap out of any election official who shenaniganizes. The beating ought happen in full view of the public. Any voter caught doin' shenanigans on-scene ought get the same treatment.
The only early, or non-on-site, voting that ought happen is for folks who cannot legitimately make their way to the polls. For example: a guy in an iron lung, a paraplegic lady. Such folks ought be visited by three reps from the Registrar of Voters to assist the voter. The vote, once completed, is sealed in a lock box and deposited in a safe in the Registrar's office. It stays there till the vote count begins after the close of polls.
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NONE OF THE ABOVE ought be a viable voting option, and, if NOTA wins, it ought be binding. NOTA wins, the election is done, losers go home, no exceptions, no exemptions, no loopholes, and the position stays empty. Wanna fill that office? Hold a new election, with new candidates...at your expense. The majority, who voted NOTA, ought not foot the bill cuz the minority want an office holder.
Every candidate, win or lose, ought be mocked by the public for havin' the temerity to presume they can lead anything or anyone outside of themselves. Elected officials ought fear rightous assassination. Such folks ought tread lightly in offerin' up any legislation (outside of such canceling or negating or striking down current legislation). Tax hikes, therefore, ought only be proposed by the suicidal and insane. Any kind of rights control, therefore, ought only see the light of day when crafted by elected folks with a death wish.
As an aside: no more immunity (qualified or full) for any law enforcers. Break the law: like any citizen, you pay the price.
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The Electoral College, apart from its origins, is a fine way to assert state sovereignty. It ought not be discarded, only revamped.
Each state gets ONE electoral vote. The popular vote of the state determines which presidential candidate gets that one electoral vote. If, for example, the simple majority in my state, Louisiana, pick RED MAN DEFIANT, then he gets our one electoral vote, and if the simple majority of California picks the café au lait whore, then she gets their one electoral vote. 26 or better wins the office. In an unlikely 25 - 25 split, Congress, house and senate, convenes and votes (just as outlined at this post's beginning). 243 or better wins Congress's one, tie-breakin', electoral vote.
State sovereignty is preserved, the popular vote is elevated, and everyone is happy (yeah, right...
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Please note: not a one of my suggestions has a snowball's chance of bein' implemented, particularly since all must be implemented simultaneously.
But I can dream...
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Further...
The Constitution ought be cleaved to like it's your life preserver on stormy seas. It ought be taken literally, as is. In other words: if what you, Mr or Miss Elected Person, or private citizen, want to do isn't in that document, you can't do it.
The entirety of any legislative body ought face, at the least, severe beatings, daily, until they balance the budget.
We ought be called The Constitutional Republic of America (or Freedonia, as Samuel Mitchill suggested).
Our flag ought be the Gadsden.
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And, lastly, the suggestion makin' all others unnecessary: start with a simple declarative, say, every citizen has an absolute right to his or her, and no one else's, life, liberty, and property. Add to that a simple, one person-one vote system. Run that vote as described above with one change: the vote -- yay or nay -- must be unanimous. Even one contrary vote (like *ahem* mine) and you have the equivalent of NOTA.
That's crazy, Henry! Government would never get anything done!
Yes, exactly.
Again: I can dream...
Oh Henry, if any of that garbage were implemented your country would fall and you'd be in Somalia!
Mebbe, mebbe not. Don't worry yer lil head about it, non-American person.
Oh, that's just more of your libertarian, minarchist, garbage, Henry.
Yep.
You suck Henry.
