Employment-Vote Cards Solve Unlawful Immigration and Voter Fraud

Posted on | February 26, 2010 | 2 Comments

By Xelan Bonn (Feb 27, 2010 – Updated Mar 9) www.xelanbonn.com

The lack of voting IDs and employment authorization cards in this day in age is causing havoc in our on economic, electoral, and national security. At issue is voting fraud, the hiring of unlawful workers, and our country’s growing inability to expose potential foreigner threats on US soil. Yet attempts to help resolve the situation, such as the Real ID Act/Card and more obscure attempts have been thwarted for a variety of reasons, not the least of which are state’s reluctance to shift citizenship administrative control to the federal government and privacy issues.

The basic Constitutional reality is, each state is technically a country within the United States—each having their individual sovereignty. Most Americans forget this reality. Equally, we are actually citizens of states in all practical aspects of government, although the federal government also bestows official legal status of US citizenship on behalf of all states by their collective permission. As time has passed over the decades in America, Congress and the White House have infringed steadily on the state’s sovereignty, which is now to the point whereby our central federal government—greatly distance from citizens and their issues—is now dictating to both citizens and states. And many states see a federal identification card as the final straw to usurp their authority and sovereignty.

Senators Chuck Schumer (D, NY) and Senator Lindsey Graham (R, SC) are currently forging a bill to create an unconstitutional amnesty for millions of felony perpetrating illegal aliens whose only crime is that they want to make a better life for themselves—at the expense of US taxpayers and workers and their crime victims (few reporters rarely say the rest of that sentence, have you noticed?).

Being worked into the bill is Big Brother and another Constitutional violation against US citizens—biometric federal ID cards, which would make all voters citizens of the federal government and not of their respective states. This seems trivial to most Americans but the distinction is massive in its implications.

State’s arguments against such a federal ID are both reasonable and sound in principal and law. Yet blocking such progress toward resolving security, economic, and electoral security issues remains detrimental and impractical to the states themselves.

The solution is simple…

The federal government should merely set down a basic standard for making such an ID Card that all states, if they chose to adopt such, can then provide for their citizens. Call it the State Voter and Employment Card or SVEC under this example. Here’s how it might work…

It would be a Driver’s license type card with tamper-proof design nearly identical in function to a Driver’s license (but it would obviously have its own distinct look). The card would have a person’s name and photo ID on it and two bar codes. On the rear, it would have a readable magnetic strip which would hold the exact same information. Here’s how it would work.

When voting or applying for a job, the registrar or employer would simply scan their respective but distinct bar codes (labeled accordingly). The scanner would be connected to a secure Internet transmission, which would access either the state’s Employment Qualification Database or the Voter Qualification database operated by the state. Each database would hold all the necessary information needed to “greenlight” the person for either task. A confirmation and event number would be sent back from the state’s database to the scanning machine for company or registrar records and the scanner itself would simply offer a visual verification (i.e. green or red light) and/or an optional print-out slip of the confirmation and event number.

As example, a voter would simply show up at the polls, have their card scanned, get green-lighted, and go vote. Most-all voter fraud is then eliminated because the state’s database would confirm the person is not a felon or otherwise ineligible to vote in real time.

The employment confirmation system would do roughly the same, verifying citizenship (using the state system’s access to the federal government citizenship records system) as well as verify social security number authenticity—all stored in a secure database controlled by the state, not the federal government.

If a person is redlighted, then the system would allow the person to proceed anyway but the employer or registrar would have additional procedures they would have to follow for further compliance (presumably less than 1% of all those using the system).

For example, the registrar would conduct auditing procedures and if the person in question still has a redlight after such procedures are done, then their vote would be removed from the official vote count.

In the case of an employee, if the manual verification system still redlighted the employee, then the employer would be required to discharge the employee (until the employee resolves the situation to become a lawful worker, if possible).

The onus of providing the verification information for all redlights would fall to the state, not the employer or the employee or the voter or the registrar or the federal government. This way, business can be conducted as usual without any disruption for 100% of all users and only an estimated 1% of those users will have to be handled with more manual effort, giving the person the benefit of the doubt to work or vote until the process plays out. Nobody is denied their vote or the ability to work unless they later receive a verified redlight, in which case they will have to personally address the reasons for the redlight with the proper state agency.

The card would be free to all citizens, of course, so that there were no issue of access due to income level or costs to the individual and to not unduly hinder them from getting a job or from voting.

Immigrants and visa workers would be issued a similar card but with a different color system to denote their foreign or temporary status and to distinguish them from US citizens. If applicable, their voting information would be omitted from the card, hence they could not access the system at any polling outlet.

With SVECs in place across the country, unlawful workers and unauthorized voters would be culled from the system rather quickly. By using separate and distinct databases and encrypted access systems as well as SVEC’s that only hold bar code information on the individual (basically useless to a criminal seeking to perpetrate ID theft or other crimes who finds or steals the card) for voters or employees, the information is more protected and secured while one card serves two key purposes and cuts down administrative outlays.

Biometric security has already been proven to be fallible and essentially costly, if not ultimately useless. However, the maintaining of multiple purpose databases, one for social security verification, one for driver’s license verification, one for criminal status, citizenship, etc. as are currently done now, have a single scanner code that uses its own unique identifier to cross reference these databases, places a much higher degree of security and integrity within the system while keeping the federal government all but out of the picture.

Having each person who is issued an SVEC use a PIN Code, much like an ATM Card, would ensure yet another strong layer of defense and security from ID Theft.

If a person relocates to another state, then a federal law would require that their old state transfer the information to the new state and then, after 90 days to ensure full integrity of the transfer, delete all information regarding the person who is no longer a resident, hence under their legal concern (due to privacy and accuracy issues, they would not be entitled to maintain such personal data). This would keep the system clean, records centralized to one state and unable to proliferate across the system, etc.

The benefit to such a system is that both elections and voters will be more assured that less fraud is taking place in the system while providing for more accurate auditing trails. Additionally, employers would thus be exempted from laws that prohibit hiring unlawful workers by having a simple, cost effective system such as SVEC to routinely apply with no cost impacts to them. And most importantly, states would not lose their citizens and shift their sovereign authority further to the federal government while citizens themselves avoid losing their privacy and person security of the their information.

To cut costs in implementing the system, the SVEC system could simply take a copy of the current federal, E-Verify system and place it on state controlled computer systems and reprogram from there.

Such a system would cost only a few billion for all states combined (which the federal government could fund under a national security bill, as the program deals directly with the need to ensure national security by effectively creating a barrier to illegal aliens who may still forge cards, but will be unable to access employment or voting, hence have a tough time operating inside America illegally.

For example, if Sally Smith is currently working and Jack The Creep tries to use a forged copy of her SVEC, the system would be alerted and red lighted because it would, in one of its control databases, know Sally is working currently at XYZ company and/or most likely flag Jack The Creep when he fails to enter the corrent PIN Number. Hence a double layer of protection is created without the costly and overly technical or intrussive systems of biometric applications.

Such a system could be implemented within a year by all states. However, the system would save taxpayers hundreds of billions a year by helping eliminate unlawful labor from the marketplace, which would also help raise wages for US workers.

And the best benefit of all would be, there would be more jobs for lawful workers in a down turned economy—about 5 to 10 million more within a year of implementation. And in an upturn economy, when labor shortages occur, wages would once again be allowed to rise and help restore our nation’s shrinking middleclass and brace our standard of living from being eroded further by criminals who have committed felonies to order to obtain fraudulent IDs and unlawfully work (or vote), which would also work as a major deterrent to keep down illegal immigration.

About The Author
Xelan Bonn, MBA, is a highly seasoned freelance journalist and past president of nonpartisan Patriot Union of America (and past Editor-in-Chief of PUA News), as well as past contributor to one time White House and Congressional think tank, Patriot Society. He has numerous original breaking news stories to his credit that have later been followed extensively by the mainstream press. His political news and analysis blog is among the fastest growing in the US and draws loyal readers from around the world, including many members of the US Congress and politicians in top positions in dozens of foreign governments.

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