2005 Carter-Baker Report Could Have Averted Problems With 2020 Voting

Perhaps, finally President Trump will contribute to cleaning up the long recognized voting mess in U.S. general elections! If I am not mistaken, few Western democracies have such massive issues with their voting systems than the United States! This will only contribute to his already impressive legacy!

With razor thin margins observed again and again in many elections and over many election cycles a clean up was urgently called for! Tone deafness is what our too many long time career politicians preferred!

"... The commission was created to address voting and election integrity issues raised by the tumultuous 36-day postelection battle of 2000, which was settled by the U.S. Supreme Court decision that resulted in awarding Florida’s 25 electoral votes and the presidency to Republican George W. Bush over Democrat Al Gore. ..."

2005 Carter-Baker Report Could Have Averted Problems With 2020 Voting They called on states to increase voter ID requirements; to be leery of mail-in voting; to halt ballot harvesting; to maintain voter lists, in part to ensure dead people are promptly removed from them; to allow election observers to monitor ballot counting; and to make sure voting machines are working properly. 

They also wanted the media to refrain from calling elections too early and from touting exit polls.