Removing Electronic Voting Systems is a National Security Issue

There can be no faith in our system as long as they are operational.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made a declaration last week addressing Trump at a White House summit that vindicates the actions of election integrity activists nationwide on the issue of electronic voting systems.

“We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation, to manipulate the results of the votes being cast, which further drives forward your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in the integrity of our elections,” Gabbard said.

President Donald Trump has been an outspoken advocate of paper ballots, believing that they would create a more secure election and also prevent long delays in vote counting that have become a common occurrence in recent elections.

“If you went to paper ballots and same-day voting, and if you went to voter ID, and also one other thing, you want proof of citizenship. Those four,” Trump said.

“You would save tens of millions of dollars. Forgetting about right, wrong and security, safety, our country, our constitution, and all of these. Number one, you have a much safer election. Number two, everybody—you know the results of your election by 10 o’clock,” Trump continued.

The evidence discovered by the DNI gives additional credibility to Trump's words.

They also justify the concerns of the election integrity movement’s most fervent die-hards, led by the likes of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and General Michael Flynn, who refused to let the injustice of 2020 be forgotten. They were sued, prosecuted, ridiculed, deplatformed, de-banked, boycotted and defamed relentlessly by the whole of society for remaining steadfast. Most Republican elected officials treated them like lepers, but they have now been vindicated after years of enduring an Kafka-esque nightmare.

Their dogged determination of the hardcore denizens of the election integrity movement did us all a great service.

They refused to submit to the popular narrative put forward by the elites. They refused to let the issue fall by the wayside and have shifted awareness on the issue despite the institutional pressure levied against them.

Even though 2024 was too big to rig because of Donald Trump's unique level of support, a once-in-a-lifetime personality will not be on the ballot in every single election. An inherently rigged system with insecure and hackable voting machines will be too much to overcome in the long haul.

There have been credible experts and even government bureaucrats who have stated the obvious about our nation’s insecure voting computers since the 2020 presidential elections.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) sent out an advisory to at least 16 states before the 2022 midterm elections warning of software vulnerabilities within Dominion Voting Machines. A survey from the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) showed that 64 percent of tech professionals were concerned with the tampering with tabulation of voter results. University of Michigan computer science professor J. Alex Halderman has identified four major vulnerabilities in our election systems

These voices were predictably muted and these stories were widely underreported in the media.

In the technological age, there are new capabilities always opening up to allow cheating. As long as voting machines can be hooked into the internet, the door will be wide open for mass fraud. Any half measures that do not get rid of these machines will keep around the possibility of voter exploitation and election theft.

The only way to stop the cheating is, as Gabbard said, returning to paper ballots, which can then be enhanced, watermarked and verified as legitimate through secure blockchain technology. The process can be recorded every step of the way to ensure transparency and prevent ballot box stuffing with any deviations from the mandated process resulting in stiff prison sentences.

Paper ballots should be considered a national security priority.

President Trump ought to be considering executive action to ban the scourge of voting machines. There can be no faith in our system as long as they are operational.

The same way the federal government integrated schools, they should confiscate these voting machines wherever they are being used. The Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution would prevent the states from being able to physically interpose themselves to prevent such an act from occurring.

The Courts may whine about it, but to paraphrase Andrew Jackson, let them try and enforce their opposition to Trump’s bold action…

The election integrity warriors, with their unwillingness to bend to popular opinion, showed that they are cast from the same mold as the Founding Fathers.

These are the type of patriots who you would love to see next to you in a foxhole.

They have already endured incredible amounts of hardship, done to their reputations, their character, their finances and their freedom, standing up boldly from the cause.

During Trump’s second administration, their concerns will be proven accurate, the reforms they call for will be enacted, and history will remember them fondly for their courage and sacrifice.