To: The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Donald Trump
Return to PAPER BALLOTS for the 2020 Elections!
Vote-counting machines (e.g., Diebold, Dominion, Election Systems & Software, et al.) are so easy to hack that a child less than eight years old was able to do so. Robert Mueller's recent investigation confirmed that Russian agents targeted the vulnerable software. Our system of government depends on free and fair elections, yet we no longer even know whether the "results" are a true indication of how people voted. The only remedy is a return to paper ballots!
Why is this important?
I must sincerely question the results of elections going back as far as 2004, when the balance hung on the Ohio count. Exit polls indicated that Senator Kerry had won, but Diebold machines gave the state and the election to President Bush. An 11-year-old child was able to hack a Florida machine in under ten minutes (cf., https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2018/08/13/11-year-old-hacks-replica-florida-election-site-changes-results/975121002/), and Mr. Mueller's report indicated that foreign agents were evidently hard at work in 2016. These machines are a threat to our system of government, and we must return to paper ballots.