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In Virginia, election officials have gone back to a paper ballot system, as a way to prevent any foreign interference. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolfe this month ordered county officials to ensure new election equipment produces a paper record. Georgia lawmakers are considering legislation to replace a touch-screen voting system with paper.
Top election officials around the country are growing increasingly alarmed about this fall's midterm elections, with a drumbeat of dire warning signs that Russia is determined to influence them. And many are concerned that President Trump has not focused on the potential for more attacks on America's election system like the one Russia launched in 2016.
With little leadership from the White House or Congress, they are acting locally, trying to outwit potential hackers by upgrading equipment and enhancing the cybersecurity of systems that contain sensitive voter registration rolls. Secretaries of state and other elections officials around the country in recent months also began applying for security clearances so that federal officials can start briefing them on classified information - and potential threats to election integrity.
Comment: No evidence has ever been put forward by the US, or any other nation that has accused Russia of election interference - and that's because there is none - but the American people could still benefit from this move though, because what has been proven is that elections are regularly rigged by players within their own country. Though paper ballots do not guarantee votes are safe from fraud:
- 10 cases prove voter fraud isn't a myth
- Election tipper: Proof voter fraud is real
- Evidence of electronic vote fraud pours in from both liberal and conservative sources
- Trump dissolves voter fraud commission
- Voting, Cognitive Dissonance and Fear of the Unknown
- New wrinkle for New Hampshire voter fraud
- US interfered in elections of at least 85 countries worldwide since 1945
- In the Absence of Evidence of Russian Collusion and 'Hacking', Congress Makes It Up
Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: The Russia Collusion Ruse: Why the US Deep State Hates Russia, Not Trump