Voting is the free world’s Achilles heel and/or Trojan horse. Valid voters are suppressed. Vote audits are suppressed. Voter registration systems are hacked. And the worst-case scenario of all looms before us all like a monster in a horror movie: what if voting machines themselves are hacked, the “results” are faked and democracy is quietly cancelled without the general public even noticing?

1. Require paper ballots for all votes. No all-electronic voting; no online voting; no “cryptographically assured” e-voting. Always generate, and maintain, simple physical boxes full of individually marked paper ballots. Ballot boxes can theoretically still be stuffed, of course, but that’s easier to guard against and does not scale to scores of jurisdictions and entire nation-states.
2. Dynamically audit all votes after the fact, as a precautionary measure. By “dynamically” I mean “for each and every jurisdiction, after the initial tabulation of the vote, take a small random sampling of votes and compare them to the tabulated results. If there seems to be an anomaly, go back and take a larger sample; repeat until an anomaly is statistically confirmed or cleared.”