From DEF CON 2018 -- 12 Actions To Secure National Elections before 2020. Yes, We Can.

[ancianita]

5. One solution is to start with The People. All elections, but this one in particular, are tests of

our on-the-ground capacities for democratic awareness, vigilance, communications, pressure and protest.

If Rachel says we should watch what they do, not what they say, I'd add that
we should watch what we do and not what we say.

Does everything have to get perfect federal or monetary support to be doable?

Point 1. Fuck 'em. We can do it at state levels through a couple of means. It costs nothing for states to sweep out their voting machinery. That costs nothing. Then pay the cost of a replacement paper balloting system with a one-shot tax increase. And donors.

Point 2. They can be trashed and new ones purchased. Or replaced by paper balloting. The safety and strength of blockchain voting has also been considered.

Points 6, 9, 12, I hear you.

So here is a starting point.

We start the pressure at state levels. You can begin with yours, and everyone else here can begin with theirs. https://ballotpedia.org/State_election_agencies


The bottom line: if solutions are not perfect everywhere, all the time, can we excuse ourselves from saving our democracy?

Democracy just won't run itself.

We're at this point because too many of the comfortable have not been afflicted, and too many have not afflicted the comfortable.

We can protest, though we've seen that there've been no protests over electoral hacking, so that's not happening.

We can make calls, though, to our state voting commissions. Can't we. Yes We Can.

Now your turn. Do you have any solutions?