A Modest Proposal
Don Jaffa, LCMB member
Who can forget the ‘hanging Chad’ of the ‘Bush-Gore’ election cycle? Or, the news media deleted references to the Antrim County Superior Court ordered Forensic examination of the voting machines, and the finding that they were vulnerable to hacking. Or the Maricopa County pause at 11pm when Trump was ahead by 9,000 votes to 8am resumption where Biden was ahead by 9,000 votes. And affirmed by the County.
As Ronald Reagan said to Gorbachev, “Trust but Verify!” So we are faced with the brick wall of paper ballots and paper absentee ballots. Both of which are set in stone by progressive “woke” politicians because (despite their claims otherwise) they can be manipulated in different ways. They will not surrender any opportunity to steal elections.
In 1946, in ‘The Battle of Athens,” WW II veterans refused to accept a rigged local election, and took action to seize the ballots and report the true election results, that threw out a corrupt sherif. It was the veterans who took the initiative in face of corruption.
At present, our national media has become challenged as the presenter of ‘Fake News,’ and therefore completely untrustworthy. It is time to put Ronald Reagan’s “Verify” in place. So how, one might ask, can our electoral process be secured, and foster integrity and respect in that process.
Biannual and quadrennial elections for the House, Senate and the Presidency are the purpose of federal elections. They are also concurrent with local and state elections as well. There is only one organization with the technical competence and ability, to do this task. It is the National Security Agency. It may require a constitutional amendment to set the process under the NSA.
The NSA, using super computing, can set up a national voter registration data base. The data base is set up using ZIP+4, State DMV driver/ID registration, and the social security number. Each federal and state agency will provide an update every 30 days so the data base remains current.
For any registration, in every state, with DMV, for either a driver’s license, or personal identification, an applicant will have to provide an American birth certificate, and provide a thumbprint.
Each state will be provided with USB memory sticks, loaded with an access to the ballot. At 60 days prior to an election those who request absentee ballots can be sent one of these USB memory sticks to cast their ballot. Every polling station will be provided with voting booths equipped with an access to the internet using one of these USB memory sticks.
When a voter clicks on ‘Open Ballot’ the software opens an NSA generated VPN using either 128 or 256 byte encryption VPN that connects only with the NSA electoral data base. The voter has to type in his or her ZIP+4, their Driver license number, and then their SSN. That opens the ballot for them to vote. When the ballot is voted, it activates the attached thumbprint reader. When the thumbprint is scanned and the light turns from red to green, the vote is cast.
So what protects the integrity of this electoral process? First of all, the use of the thumbprint reader secures the requirement that only the thumb of the voter insures the veracity of the identity of the voter. Now, the issuance of the social security number takes place at birth, in the hospital. Much earlier it was obtained when one first wanted to work.
The current VPN encryption uses 128 bytes, which is the AES standard. With current technology, experts believe it is ‘unhackable’ through the rest of this century. It can be upgraded to 256 byte encryption AES standard. That upgrade makes it even more difficult
to ‘hack.’
But that ‘hack’ would only afford access to a ‘ballot’ on election day, or the early voting period. A ‘Hacker’ would not be able to cast a vote. During setup of the system each state DMV would upload their DL/ID data base, and every 30 days upload new registrations or renewals, and deaths, invalidating a registration. The same process takes place with the social security system, i.e., a complete upload during setup, and every 30 days upload new registrations, or deaths. NSA would also report dual registration of social security numbers as a felony violation of the federal law enacting the security and integrity of the federal electoral process.
The federal and state criminal justice systems would also have to report those incarcerated for felony convictions and the end date for incarceration, as their right to vote is suspended during incarceration and during probation. At the completion of probation or incarceration they would only have to submit a writ of restoration with the nearest federal district court. The tech nerds argue that Quantum computing can easily hack any of these systems using VPN, or into state DMV or the federal social security system. We already have to worry about either the Russian or Communist Chinese governments. They are the only ones that can acquire the Quantum computing assets and the interest to interfere in US federal elections. On the other hand, the US government can set up a separate internet only for federal elections, with no access to the regular internet, with only terminals at US post offices, or polling stations.
