Voting machines pose a greater threat to our elections than foreign agents
I&#x27;m of the opinion that the headline is true, but only vacuously -- foreign agents are not a threat to our elections (except where they attempt to directly compromise voting infrastructure), and similarly the threat from bad voting machines is extremely small.<p>There are enough checks in the system (bipartisan counting and validation committees) that a pure digital compromise of an election that would not be flagged and detected is very small.<p>There are much more pressing matters, like access to voting stations (both distance and time), voter roll purging, ballot design flaws that make voting fundamentally error prone, and (controversially) a lack of identification requirements for elections that make certain classes of fraud difficult to detect.<p>I think on balance, all-remote elections, like Oregon has had for a while, and I think Washington now too, are the best balance here.  There are certain vulnerabilities around buying, compelling, and selectively harvesting votes, but with universal cell phones, &quot;proof of vote&quot; is too easy to obtain anyway so those ships have mostly sailed, and it seems like a reasonable tradeoff to make.