Well, I'll take the money, money is nice, I can always find something to spend it on. But we can secure our election system with two simple steps, no money required.
1. Use paper ballots, everywhere, every time. They cannot hack a paper ballot over the Internet.
2. Secure the voter registration lists. That list upon which the poll workers check off your name as you vote. If the list is destroyed, or altered, bad things happen. Legitimate voters will be denied ballots, illegitimate voters will be given ballots.
In this PC age, every thing is kept on computer. There was a time when the voter registration list was kept by town clerks, using pen and paper. We could go back to that, but all the poll workers would scream and cry and threaten to hold their breath. Since we seem to be stuck with computers, we can at least take some obvious security measures. The computer[s] upon which the voter registration list is kept shall NOT be connected to the public internet (or the telephone network). The computer[s] shall be kept in a locked room, with the keys restricted to a very few people. All floppy disc drives shall be removed and all USB connectors snipped off.
A paper listing shall be made periodically and stored off site. An electronic backup (CD-ROM) shall be made periodically and stored off site. Each time a new backup is made, it shall be compared with the previous backup to see if any changes are reasonable.
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