We could have the US Mint produce special voting tokens that are difficult to reproduce in any large quantity and are only good for one election. Edge printing, high relief, a special alloy that can be detected by a coin comparator. One day of minting would be enough and the coins are under lock and key until election day. It would take months to make the dies, calibrate the planchets with the special alloy, and then mint them. By the time they are released there would be no way for counterfeited coins to be made in any significant quantity. Each state could have their own design so they couldn't be shifted around. These would then be sold to collectors and the proceeds used for the next election.
Yes, this is also affecting paper ballots. They're saying it may be hard to do mail in ballots this year because of the paper shortage.
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Nope
um...yes?
https://www.businessinsider.com/paper-shortages-high-costs-threaten-voting-in-the-2022-elections-2022-3?op=1
and here
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/03/06/2022-elections-face-paper-shortages-caused-supply-chain-inflation/9359536002/?gnt-cfr=1
I’m not arguing that news articles say this…
We could have the US Mint produce special voting tokens that are difficult to reproduce in any large quantity and are only good for one election. Edge printing, high relief, a special alloy that can be detected by a coin comparator. One day of minting would be enough and the coins are under lock and key until election day. It would take months to make the dies, calibrate the planchets with the special alloy, and then mint them. By the time they are released there would be no way for counterfeited coins to be made in any significant quantity. Each state could have their own design so they couldn't be shifted around. These would then be sold to collectors and the proceeds used for the next election.
Sounds brilliant to me ;)