- Process of Identifying Voters Now
- Voter Identification Fraud
- Cost of Upgrade
- Distribution
- Negative Impact
Fingerprinting as a Solution to Voting Fraud
- Process of Identifying Voters Now
- A voter goes to the precinct and tells his/her name
- The poll worker may ask for the voter's home address for verification
- The voter signs the roll book
- Voter Identification Fraud
- In CA, two non-citizens received voter ID cards through a mail paid by CA Democratic Party
- Allows them to vote without citizenship because when you have a voter ID, you don't have to "check in." All you have to do is show your ID and vote.
- People can try to vote more than once - different precincts
- Sometimes senior citizens who cannot remember things well vote during early voting and forget that they voted. So, they try to vote again.
- Not really a fraud, but it can be problem.
- Voters can identify themselves as someone else
- Most of the time, the roll books are visible, which means a person can just read off of the roll book when the poll worker asks for name and address
- Dead people are voting!
- In some states, the number of people who voted was greater than the number of registered voters
- Identification required in Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alaska, and Idaho
- California is trying to pass a legislature that requires voter ID
- Cost of Upgrade
- Fingerprint Scanner: About $100
- Ranges from $40-200
- The scanner is connected to a computer through USB Connection
- Computers
- As low as $300 for a desktop or $500 for a laptop
- Distribution
- One computer with the scanner per poll worker
- Negative Impact
- Faking fingerprint
- Very easy and can be done at home
- http://www.ccc.de/biometrie/fingerabdruck_kopieren.xml?language=en
- Once your fingerprint is stolen, you can't change your fingerprint
- Privacy issue
- People are scared to give their fingerprints to the government because they think that the government can track them down anytime they want.
- This shouldn't be a big problem because the fingerprints won't be shared with other U.S. departments
- Rough hands - finger prints may not be clear enough to match
- People without fingers or people who hurt their fingers
- In these extreme cases, the voters still can vote in traditional way
REFERENCES
- Archer, Keith. "Voter's Proof of Identification." Aceproject. 17 November 1997. 6 December 2005 .
- "The Case for Identifying Voters at the Polls." California State Senator Dick Ackerman Proudly Serving the 33rd District. 17 October 1997. 7 December 2005 .
- Clark, Doug. "Voter ID." News-Record.com: Greensboro, North Carolina. 17, November 2005. 5 December 2005 .
- "Digital Persona U. are. U Personal Fingerprint Scanner." Dan's Data. 17 July 2002. 2 December 2005 .
- "Fingerprint Scanners bypass the Cost and Workload of Passwords." Government Computer News. 9 July 2001. 10 December 2005 .
- Foster, Julie. "California in Frenzy over Voter Fraud: Many Outraged about Democrat Mailer Signed by Bill Clinton." WorldNetDaily. 2000. 5 December 2005 .
- "How to Fake Fingerprints?" Chaos Computer Club e.V. 26 October 2004. 10 December 2005. .
- "Ohio GOP Challenges 35,000 Voter Registrations." BillHobbs.com. 26 October 2004. 9 December 2005 .
