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How Alabama Secures Elections

Suggestion and workable solution to the Elections Fraud potential:
From Jim Coles, on how to eliminate as much fraud and problems in election system as possible;
Here's how we vote in Alabama...
A state-issued ID is required to;

a. Register & before a name goes the rolls the ID card number, personal biography of person & his/her address is verified.
b. Once verified, the person is sent a voter registration card with a pre-paid postal return to the registrar stub that must be signed & signature on file is compared to the one on the return stub.
c. Mail ins are allowed only for absentee voting & absentee ballots are allowed only in specific circumstances, and all must be post marked NLT 7 PM on election day & received not later than noon the day after election. Absentee ballots go directly from the post office to the county ballot counting center at the county seat. Military absentee ballots mailed special delivery both ways & require verified signatures & the vote by the military member must be witnessed by the unit voting officer who sends the ballots to the counting center in a sealed pouch provided by the AL Secretary of State.
d. Otherwise, all votes in AL are made on election day. At a polling station. In person.
e. Two forms of ID are required to vote. A state issued ID & the registration card, or the ID and any of 27 different documents with the correct name & address matching what's on the voter roll.
f. The voter declares his/her political party, signs for a party specific ballot ( both party ballots have party candidates, & amendment/issues are printed identically printed.
g. Each voter must mark & sign his/her ballot. By hand with a pen containing ink our optical character reader counting machines can read. These pens are controlled items & must be accounted for.
h. Ballots go into the OCR/counting machine. Which counts ballots on the master screen by number of ballots not party.
i. I am the voting control clerk at the main precinct in Elba. During voting hours I observe all voters & assist as necessary getting one vote at a time into the machine.
j. If a voter makes a mistake or marks improperly (over or under votes) & wants a re-do I take the voter & ballot to our precinct supervisor who issues a new ballot & puts the spoiled ballot into a special bag.
k. After the polls close I run seven results print outs & give them to the supervisor. Then the ballots are removed from the security boxing the machine. I count the ballots, separate them by party, & compare raw/gross ballots to the machine count; then compare party specific ballots to the machine count by party. Those counts must agree.

l. Then all seven poll workers review my counts vs what voters signed for. If all counts agree the ballots are sealed in a metal box with a keyed padlock, and all other election materials go into sealed bags & All the materials go into a single box that is also sealed.m. This post-closing process takes about 45 minutes. When the supervisor is satisfied a deputy sheriff escorts her (in our case a sweet old lady) & the materials to the counting center where she signs chain of custody documents & turns the materials over to the county voting coordinator. Ballots boxes are unlocked & one team counts physical ballots by raw count & party, & a other team runs the OCR/counting machine thumb drives info. Again, all numbers must match.
n. The county consolidated counting is a public event. County party chairpersons get to observe as close as two feet from the counting teams. The media get to also be up close on the counting. Usually, 150-300 members of the public watch, as well.
o. In our county total results are usually tallied in 90 minutes or so. Then the data is sent by closed INTRANET to the Secretary of State's Office. Then follows a series of verbal back & forth to verify various elements in the counts.
p. Finally, the Sheriff & two deputies deliver the official election documents to the Sec State himself NLT 10 am the day after the election.
q. The ballots, in their metal boxes are stored for four years in the safe room at the county seat courthouse.

Can't get much more secure than this!!

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