Elections "can" be error-free...How?

[SoCalDem]

Hold Federal office elections separately. Each even-year cycle would have a maximum of THREE choices for each voter.

The states could hold their governor, state senators,councilpeople,referendum,proposition,local office-holder, etc election in odd years.

Most states end up having to have special elections in off years anyway, and that would totally divorce the most important races in the country..congress...senate..president from the rest of the mish-mash that requires the convoluted ballots..

The three(at most) choices, would certainly not require a ballot more complicated than a large index card.

Each voter would be told in NO uncertain terms, that there are to be exactly THREE marks (or TWO in years that are not a presidential election) on the card..

There should also be a "None of the above" choice by each category.

These would be easy to count/re-count...and would not be intimidating to people. We could even place a picture of the person, to help illiterate voters.

What the states do later in THEIR elections, is THEIR business, and I don't care if they have "problems" with their elections... they can fix those problems at the state level..

This would save a TON of money, and would be a great help in cutting down the line lengths too..

The cards could be encoded on the back and scanned, so a tally of HOW many voted were cast.. Before any votes are counted, the total number of ballots MUST match the numerical sign-in book count.

Why we make it so damned hard to vote is the real crime here