We need to Federalize the election process ...

If the last election proved nothing else, it demonstrated again the need for us to Federalize elections once and for all. 

Enough with this nonsense of allowing state and local bureaucrats to set their own rules on who can vote, when they can vote, and what constitutes a “legal” vote. It’s also time to finally enact a national ID for citizens to stop voter fraud once and for all.

I say that as someone in the great state of Florida, where Mickey Mouse is not just a Disney creation but an apt description of how elections are conducted here, at least in Broward and Palm Beach counties.  When you have politicians here – and also in neighboring Georgia as Stacey Abrams did – openly encouraging non-citizens to vote, it’s a clarion call to clamp down. 

When you have a flood of absentee ballots sent in with return addresses, signatures, birth dates and Social Security numbers that don’t match registration records and lawyers go to court to get these counted anyway, it’s a disgrace.  Worse yet, some nitwit judges actually allow mail-in ballots received well after official cut-off deadlines be counted in a clear violation of state laws.   

And when thousands of “lost” ballots suddenly materialize in Democrat-heavy counties, and when a rental car left at the Tampa airport was found to have boxes of blank ballots in the trunk, is it any wonder citizens think there’s voter fraud? 

Well of course there’s voter fraud. Critics on the left say it can’t be proved.  That’s because the state and local bureaucrats routinely engaged in voter fraud say it never happens.  Apparently that’s good enough for the media and politicians on the left. Nothing to see here, right? 

Do we really trust the media and politicians to tell us the truth?  More importantly, do we really trust state and local bureaucrats to fess up that they have no idea who is voting? The truth is, most don’t know but don’t want to admit it. 

Every time someone gets the bright – and right – idea to clean voter rolls to remove duplicates, the dead, vacant lots, and even registered voters who would be over 125 years old according to Social Security records, Democrats and the left go crazy. It makes no difference how the cleaning is designed, including sending letters to addresses on file that bounce back undeliverable three or more times, Democrats and the left scream bloody murder. 

It’s always a plot to disenfranchise minority voters, according to them. So is any attempt to require people to prove who they are – or even that they are alive – to vote.    

Think about why the left and Democrats are so opposed to voter ID.  Why they are so opposed to verifying addresses and signatures of voters.  Why they fight every attempt to ensure that only citizens are voting in our elections.

There’s only one conclusion: Democrats and the left are stuffing the ballot boxes. 

Didn’t you ever wonder why when blue district bureaucrats “find” additional ballots those ballots are almost always overwhelmingly for Democrats?  Or that some heavily Democrat places have more people voting than the number registered to vote? Or that “provisional” ballots almost always favor Democrats over Republicans? 

Are those just coincidences?  Really? 

The media like to say that we are an almost evenly divided nation, politically.

I honestly don’t believe that. I think widespread voter fraud only makes it look like that.

So here’s what I think needs to be done to “true” our elections. 

We need a national ID. Every citizen 18 and over needs to have a unique citizen number and photo ID, on a card chipped with their encoded date of birth, Social Security number, and thumbprint.  A driver’s license or student ID doesn’t cut it. Getting the card would be free and the process would be managed and executed by the Department of Homeland Security. Obtaining one of these fraudulently would be a serious Federal felony.

I don’t want to hear any of the BS about the burden this would place on the old, the disabled, or minorities. If need be, we could send out DHS-staffed mobile units to minority neighborhoods, nursing homes or wherever needed to document everyone.  Whatever it costs would be worth it. 

During the process, cross-check these against existing Social Security records. No valid Social Security number, no ID, period.   

All the data would be entered into a Federal database.  To vote in person anywhere in the U.S. you would need to show that ID and have the chip read.  To vote by absentee ballot that ballot would have to include that citizen number, which could then be cross-checked against the database to insure the filer only votes once, rather than once where they live and another where they might maintain another residence, as I suspect some seasonal residents and college students might be doing. 

Anyone possessing one of these valid chipped IDs would automatically be registered to vote in any and all of their state’s elections, and all Federal elections. The burden of maintaining and validating voter rolls would be taken out of the hands of the states.   

Finally, once someone has been cleared to vote in person, use only paper ballots of a consistent design set by the Federal Election Commission, which should also set uniform early voting times and rules, deadlines for submitting absentee ballots, and deadlines for submitting results, across the entire country.  In short, cut out the state and local bureaucrats entirely. 

Then let’s see if we are really so evenly divided.  I suspect we’re not.

All this would take a act of Congress. I fully expect a wide range of legal challenges, mainly from Democrats and the left, less so from Republicans and the right. 

Big city politicians will scream that the same data could be used to hunt down illegals and deny them Federal benefits. And they would be right about that.

I consider that a bonus.