Voting Machine Hackers Have 5 Tips to Save the Next Election

American democracy depends on the sanctity of the vote. To secure voting infrastructure in the US in time for even the next presidential election, government agencies must start now. Voting machines that do not produce a voter verifiable audit paper trail should be decommissioned. In the end paper gives election officials a way a deliver a correct result, even if the technology fails due to hacking attacks, system malfunction, or power outages. A risk-limiting audit is a statistical method to verify an election result and to detect vote tempering independent of the voting machine technology.