Fixing Democracy: The Election Security Crisis and Solutions for Mending It (Fall 2020)

The 2000 presidential election debacle in Florida led to the widespread adoption of electronic voting machines in the United States. Yet these machines have proven to be more problematic than the punch card machines that precipitated Florida's crisis. Poorly built and poorly secured electronic voting machines have left U.S. elections vulnerable to software glitches and manipulation — by foreign adversaries or by malicious insiders — for 20 years. An easy solution exists to help restore integrity to the democratic process. But federal lawmakers have failed to act.