The integrity of American elections has been compromised. With each and every new election cycle comes blatant instances of voter fraud, which threaten self-governance because it threatens the very social compact that lays at the heart of public trust and confidence in governance.

A widely read PPD investigation into voter fraud in the Buckeye State back in 2012, put President Obama's tiny 2-point margin in doubt, or rather explained it beyond a doubt. Bombshell data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) was similarly used by The Washington Post to demonstrate that non-U.S. citizens easily explain President Obama's tiny 2008 margin in North Carolina and Missouri, now-Sen. Al Franken's (ObamaCare's final vote) that same year, and many others.

The dominant proposal to restore integrity to elections is the voter ID requirement, or voter ID laws. Unfortunately, proposing voters meet the same requirement for getting into a football, basketball, or baseball game labels you a racist. Thus, I have another proposed solution, one that uses human incentive rather than honesty to ensure voter fraud is all but eliminated.

Since every election is a contest -- or, in essence, it shares with American sports the very same competitive drive to a zero-sum outcome -- then, we should treat it as such. When rules are broken in sports, then there are penalties. So, I submit the following proposal should be drafted into federal legislation by the newly elected Republican majority in Congress, which holds:

In instances of systematic voter fraud that overwhelmingly benefits the candidate of one party or another, then for every fraudulent vote that is found, the party's individual candidate shall be penalized 1,000 votes. Further, as each individual's flag or penalty so harms their team, instances of systemic voter fraud shall penalize the party that sought to benefit by defrauding American voters.

As a result, in accordance with guidelines to be set forth by each individual state legislature, which much be approved by the state's chief executive, the party's presidential nominee shall also be penalized the number of Electoral Votes decided upon should that party's nominee win the state during the following president contest. Though the remaining Electoral Votes must be appropriated to the opposite party's nominee, how those appropriations are made will, too, be decided upon by the state legislatures.

In other words, let's incentivize political parties to police their own GOTV machines by conducting in-house oversight. Every contest has rules and, when those rules are broken, there are penalties.