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Twenty-Eighth Amendment

Section 1
Presidential elections shall occur quadrennially in years evenly divisible by 4, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November; that day shall be a National Holiday.

Section 2
All votes for candidates in primary or general elections for State wide or Federal offices shall be by a hand marked paper ballot cast by a verified citizen of the United States of America within an authorized polling location. No other ballots shall be accepted other than from qualified overseas citizens.

Section 3
All ballots cast for State wide or Federal offices shall be counted in the polling location in which they were cast, on the day they were cast, by teams comprised of at least one Election Judge and a representative of each party that was on the ballot. Teams shall be provided as needed to complete counting by 12 midnight. Counting operations shall be recorded by digital video; a digital image of each ballot shall be taken.

Section 4
After counting, all ballots for State wide or Federal offices shall be sealed at the polling location in which they were cast and transported, along with the digital files, to a secure location of the state Board of Elections where they shall be stored without any further processing for a minimum period of two (2) years. During this period the public shall have the unencumbered right to inspect these materials, at their reasonable expense, at the secure storage location and under the oversight of the state Board of Elections.

Section 5
Casting an illegal ballot or tampering with ballots at any time before, during or after voting to misrepresent true results or otherwise interfere with the electoral process shall be prosecuted under sedition laws, without exception.

Section 6
Qualified overseas military and federal government employees may cast votes by returning previously requested ballots to the Board of Elections of the state in which they are registered to vote. Such ballots must be in the hands of the state Board of Elections ten calendar days before election day, who shall forward them to the appropriate polling locations based on the address at which they are registered to vote, in order to be counted on election day.

Section 7
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission. If this article is ratified as an amendment to the Constitution it shall go into effect beginning with the second Congress after ratification.