We have a leak, from Reality Winner, that the Russians hacked into a voting machine software company. Apparently they didn't go further and hack the voting machines, but who knows what might be possible next year, or after the next release of Windows.
Vote on paper ballots. Keep the ballots after election day in case you need to do a recount. And we can do a recount by hand, even after all the fancy digital voting machine stuff dies.
Modern digital voting machines are merely desktop computers running a "I-pretend-to-be-a-ballot" program. They mostly run Windows, world's most vulnerable operating system. Hack into the software provider, which the Russians did, and modify the "I-pretend-to-be-a-ballot" program to elect who ever you like. The software company distributes the hacked program to all it's customers, and presto, the Russians favorite candidate wins the election.
This cannot happen with paper ballots, marked with pen or # 2 pencil. And paper ballots a gotta be cheaper for the towns and cities than fancy electronic voting machines.
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