In business we PRESUME fraud will occur in any and every system, and DESIGN rules and procedures to make it possible to determine if fraud did in fact happen. Random sampling, full inspection of selected records, etc.
Some people talk about our election systems like they are magically complicated and it will never be possible to have reliable systems. B.S. The people saying that should be automatically fired and replaced with people who have actual experience preventing and catching fraud.
Election law experts
Software engineers
Process designers
Audit designers
Fact: Me & Seth Keshel (or others with similar skillset), could run a team that designs election systems that are invulnerable to fraud. The problem IS solvable, so the People should be unrelenting in their demands for every single county in the U.S. to DROP their contracts with legacy system providers, and hire people who actually know how to design real AUDITABLE SYSTEMS.
Working this problem from the bottom-up does give some counties a good transparent system, but it does nothing to force bad counties to adopt the solution. We need real prosecutions for election fraud, and some kind of top-down process that include Federal pressure.
Example 1: Pass a law that says only systems that meet Generally Accepted Audit Standards can be used in a federal election.
Example 2: Find a way to lawfully declare certain existing providers to be a threat to national security (assuming appropriate evidence of misconduct and foreign interference or risk can be found)... THEN every county can use that as a legal basis to terminate existing contracts.
Tip of the iceberg, but that's my rant of the day. If we have the will this is solvable.
