Paper ballots, triple hand-counting in each precinct, archiving all ballots for a reasonable length of time, longer where requested for reasonable investigation purpose.

The above, paper ballots and hand-counting, along with common-pot elections financing (where all election funding contributions go into a common pot and are then distributed equally amongst all candidates, so that equal opportunity for message presentation is provided across the spectrum of opinions) are the requisites for legitimate electioneering and elections.

Implementation of these is the only thing that requires to be done, and the only thing that matters.  All the rest that may be voiced, by any, is peripheral and irrelevant to the issue.

While it is unlikely that Russia, as a nation, or any official entity of the Russian State, would bother to hack United States elections (let alone the serious question if Russians would have knowledge of, let alone understanding of, the intricacies of the complexities Constitutionally built into the United States’ Federal election procedures suficient to permit them to competently manipulate those complexities), if Russians could, or would, or did, or did not do so is pure smoke and snow.  The only possible reason “Russian Hacking” might be, now has been, raised is to obscure the central issue that United States mechanical and electronical election systems, mechanisms and paraphernalia are, and have been from their introductions, vulnerable to manipulations.  That they are has been warned of and has been demonstrated possible and has been accused from the times of introductions.  Manipulations have been actually demonstrated nationally to have provably occurred in two signal instances (and more local and so less known):  The two nationally proofed are the Florida election that instigated a Supreme Court interference and the recounts ordered per laws and regulations by the Jill Stein campaign, paid for by contributions to her Recount Fund, and subsequently stopped by suits to stop filed by both major parties and candidates and by federal court interventions to prevent completions.

In the Stein ordered recounts evidences that appeared before the ordered stoppings, and that were appearing as the stops were being ordered, showed election interferences not dependent on, or result of, internet hacking, or, in all cases even electronic manipulations of device computer components, or even only interior devices:  One blatantly revealed mechanism for skewing vote results was altered alignment of optical reading focus, so that desired-to-be-omitted voter markings were not ‘seen’ by the optical reader and so not recorded.

As a result of the Jill Stein headed Recount Effort the breadth of the spectrum of election manipulating activities was given an iceberg exposure, the tip revealed that on deeper inspection would have revealed a magnitude that would have justified anulment of the entire 2016 national election result, for all candidates, and would have implicated both major parties in the manipulating.  To avoid what this would have done to U.S. Elections appearances was why both major candidates and the courts interfered.

It is the scandal of rampant rigging of U.S. elections, by both parties and by corporate manipulators and potentially any others that we have to thank for some official attention being paid to the problem.  It is undoubtedly to some degree also due to the present desire by national opinion manipulators to demonize Russia that we have officials actually broaching the subject of election manipulation.  So we also owe some thanks to Russia and Russians for providing this “Demonic” service.  It is about damn time the ongoing problem got some real attention somehow.

There is, of course, almost zero likelihood that anyone Russian, let alone the Russian State, was responsible for any of the manipulating of any United States election components in any of the United States where manipulations occurred. Accusing “The Russians” is equivalent to asserting that kids gathering recyclable bottles to return for pennies under the grandstands at a racetrack are the ones responsible for detected dopings of the horses.

But, tank you, Russia, for being there and being hated by our “elected” officials enough to draw them to poke their heads up and raise a holler about the issues of U.S. elections manipulations, which have been with us at least since Nixon’s ‘Plumbers’ broke into the DNC looking for dirt, and that continued with the ‘Hostage Crisis’ “October Surprise” that marked the Carter-Reagan election contest, and have continued non-stop, growing in sophistication as permited by technology and ingenuity under United States domestic “control”.

Paper ballots hand counted in public.  Too bad for Ossof maybe recycle him as VP?

If Congress is incurious about the hacking, perhaps the vulnerability is a feature and not a bug. Wall Street is computerized and people have taken advantage of latency times in market prices. Why wait for the Russians to hack it? Why wouldn’t a shadow US government agency (or private corporation/political party) do something similar with our partly un-auditable U.S. election system and switch votes at the last second?

Adam Schiff agrees:
Adam Schiff‏Verified account @RepAdamSchiff 
 

Key takeaways from today’s hearing with Jeh Johnson: Voter registration databases are vulnerable and we need to do more to protect them. / Was mistake for Obama Admin to wait two months to tell public what Russia was doing out of fear they would be perceived as affecting result. 

If anyone is going to be hacking US elections, it’s not Russia, who couldn’t care less.

It will be Democratic and Republican hackers. THEY are the ones who care about 1) preventing people from voting for the other side, and 2) compromising voting machines in swing districts. They’ve proven this for DECADES. Now we’re supposed to assume the Russians are doing it? It is to laugh.

The whole “Russiagate” story is BS. There was no “DNC hack”, there was a DNC LEAK which the DNC and Clinton covered up using Ukrainian hackers (or none at all – just a compromised third-part security firm.). Podesta could have been hacked by a ten-year-old. The “thirty voting offices” nonsense is completely irrelevant as exactly nothing was accomplished by the alleged hackers..

Anyone buying into this Clinton-created nonsense is also a believer in the Tooth Fairy.