Clapper just said our voting equipment should be considered "critical infrastructure"

[JudyM]

Shortly after Yates said about the Russians "They are coming back."

Finally. Let's get this going.

[Golden Raisin]

1. Then, sadly, it will rust, disintegrate, be defunded

and fall apart like our bridges, highways, tunnels, railroads, etc.

[kentuck]

2. I noticed that the French were using paper ballots...

and it appeared to be working quite well.

We need to get away from computer voting.

[JudyM]

3. Definitely. If we want to make America great again, 1st thing should be state of the art voting

and that means get the hell away from nonfunctioning, nonauditable, partisan hack-owned and hackable equipment. Let's go retro, and revive paper universally.

[Chakaconcarne]

4. Paper ballots are what saved their bacon....

Paper is our only hope to reduce the possibility of fouled elections.

[TheFrenchRazor]

8. and yet the dem leadership and many here are are complete denial about the machines. nt

[diva77]

9. This +1000. It's very Stepford-like the way they all deny it

what could possibly be behind the rampant denial??

[Hekate]

10. Here? Since DU practically pioneered the issue of Diebold and black box voting after Bush vs Gore...

.... I'd say the old-timers, at the very least, are woke on the issue.

[mopinko]

16. yeah, there was a good reason why we were hacked on election day.

woke indeed.

[nikibatts]

13. What? Why are many here still trying to demean the older Dems? Since 2000 we have been crying

about the machines. AND we voted in 2016 for the best candidate.

[uponit7771]

15. +1

[JudyM]

18. It should be a trumpeted priority that the system needs fixing.

Are any congresscritters even working up a bill? I haven't read anything .... hard to fathom why they would still be sitting back on this.

[Amaryllis]

5. DHS was saying that last summer when it came out that Russia had hacked a bunch of

voter reg databases but got a lot of pushback from state SOS who don't want the feds controlling their elections.

[JudyM]

6. We could get around that by establishing a minimum standard to be met by each state.

The existing situation is absurd. We should have addressed this when we had the presidency and majorities in both houses... why do you suppose we didn't?

[Nevernose]

7. This is a damn fine point

And also a reason that we need to work harder in non-presidential years. We've let our state political systems go to hell while focusing on the "big" races. The state and local levels are where democracy lives or dies.

[JudyM]

12. Rethug administrations get everything organized locally the way they want it. It seems that Dems

locally aren't focused much on the mechanics of the election beyond canvassing to get out the vote. That's been my experience with it, anyway. We need to retake more SOS positions as well as state legislatures, pronto. And sit on those who hold those offices to hold them to account.

[Amaryllis]

17. I heard an interview with Oregon SOS and he was very concerned that the Feds would

mess up what in Oregon is for the most part a very good system. There are some legit concerns. AND we desperately need more secure systems.

[Hekate]

11. Paper ballots and paper trail. Please.

[csziggy]

14. Absolutely paper ballots! Optical scanner for preliminary results

Verified by hand counts. Even better if the optical scanners have software that allows checking by government and other objective groups. No more software that is controlled by private corporations with no outside audits.

State laws that prevent audits should be thrown out - why hasn't anyone sued in Michigan where so many voting machines were broken, where there was clear evidence that there were problems with the count, and where state law STOPS recounts if there are problems?

[moondust]

19. Republicans and oligarchs

like it just the way it is, I presume. Soon to be rigged in all but a handful of states.