A simple voting system with minimal possibilities of cheating In my country every citizen 18 years or older is eligible to vote. You are sent a personal voting card with your name on it and the place where you must vote, which is usually a school or some other public place near your residence. On election day you turn in your voting card in exchange for the ballot(s) and your name is crossed off their list. You go inside the "booth" and write your "X" on the ballot. You then go outside the booth and put it in the ballot box, which is sealed (the first few voters are asked to verify that the boxes are empty, before they are sealed). Since they tick you off their a list, it means you can only vote at the place designated to you. If you know you can not make it on the day, you can do an "absentee" vote by going to any town hall or public library, where you must show ID to get the ballot. The ballot is put in a double sealed envelope (inner envelope is anonymous and put into an outer envelope that has your info written). You can only do this a up to a certain number of days before the election, so they can strike your name from the list. It is impossible to double vote. This is quite a simple system and no ink is necessary to prevent multiple voting. It works because every voter is registered and electronic voting is not allowed (yet - and I hope it stays that way). Some cheating is possible, like using another persons voting card, but it will only be on a local level and hardly enough to move any mandates. Each municipality sends in their first tally (either by phone or electronically) to the state. These first tallies are what is presented on TV. During the night or next day, a second tally is done (I think only if it is a close race). The state knows exactly how many votes are possible at each municipality, so you cannot just stuff the ballot box. Every voter is in principle allowed to observe the tallying, though it is mostly done by local representatives of each party. The final and exact tally numbers down to each municipality are then publicized in the major newspapers. That way the municipalities can check if the state used the numbers they reported.  Like I said, some cheating is possible, but never on a country-wide and systematic way. What we have seen in FL and AR et.al., like finding "missing" ballot boxes is simply not possible in my country. Also, illegal aliens can only vote if they steal some other persons voting card, so again, this can never be done systematically. You can also not be bussed around from one place to the other, since your name is only on one list in your own municipality. I often wondered why the system in the US was so lax, making fraud very easy. It is not rocket science to do it properly - but perhaps that was never really the intention. That way the deep state could always retain a certain control. I really hope that what we have seen at the midterms is going to be exposed and create an outcry that will change the election system.