How a largely forgotten Supreme Court case can help prevent an executive branch takeover of federal elections
An FBI raid on a Georgia elections facility has sparked concern about Trump administration interference in the 2026 midterms. An obscure 1970s Supreme Court case provides guardrails against that.
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February 15, 2026 @ 1:50 pm
Said it before, say it again: PAPER BALLOTS PEOPLE! Forgery proof paper ballots. If it is not on paper it is not a vote, it is a response to an opinion pole. No Computers!
As for forgery proof? Can be done, and it works like this… down the line by the numbers.
1) No ballot is printed before it’s next stop is the voter’s hand.
2) All ballots are printed on card stock prepared by, and under the same security, as the US Treasury mint. This card stock is infused with an ultra secret mix of trace minerals such that it’s source can be positively identified to a unique election using non destructive liquid chromatography.
3) The printing process occurs at the polling place via modern high speed bubble jet technology. The ink used in this process is produced to double down the security, it carries chemical markers added to the ink unique to each states election board. This process is totally insulated from the production of the card stock at the federal level making it effectively impossible for any one agent to know the exacting composition of both.
4) The voter marks the ballot and inserts it into the reader which tabulates the votes using analog scantron technology. At that point the reader stamps the ballot with a sequential index number prior to adding the ballot to a stack which is then hermetically sealed by the machine prior to being discharged for secure transport to a storage facility.
5) The analog scantron technology reports it’s totals into a block chain structure of old school hardwire landlines whose numbers are assigned no more than 24 hours in advance of the election, the logic of the block chain (of crypto currency fame) the third and final element of security. It is from this structure the news media receives its information to report to the nation.
Perhaps a bit expensive to set up, someone will have to referee between HP and Epson and Brother etc et al for who gets to build the ballot printers, and each state will have to devise and certify their own ink production process and security, but… way cheap at the price compared to civil chaos and the collapse of democracy.