https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/opinion/2020-election-voting.html#click=https://t.co/A3Lm3dUzi1 What’s at Stake in This Election? The American Democratic Experiment Trump’s former director of national intelligence on how to firmly and unambiguously reassure all Americans that their votes will be counted. Our democracy’s enemies, foreign and domestic, want us to concede in advance that our voting systems are faulty or fraudulent; that sinister conspiracies have distorted the political will of the people; that our public discourse has been perverted by the news media and social networks riddled with prejudice, lies and ill will; that judicial institutions, law enforcement and even national security have been twisted, misused and misdirected to create anxiety and conflict, not justice and social peace. If those are the results of this tumultuous election year, we are lost, no matter which candidate wins. No American, and certainly no American leader, should want such an outcome. Total destruction and sowing salt in the earth of American democracy is a catastrophe well beyond simple defeat and a poison for generations. An electoral victory on these terms would be no victory at all. The judgment of history, reflecting on the death of enlightened democracy, would be harsh. Our key goal should be reassurance. We must firmly, unambiguously reassure all Americans that their vote will be counted, that it will matter, that the people’s will expressed through their votes will not be questioned and will be respected and accepted. I propose that Congress creates a new mechanism to help accomplish this purpose. It should create a supremely high-level bipartisan and nonpartisan commission to oversee the election. This commission would not circumvent existing electoral reporting systems or those that tabulate, evaluate or certify the results. But it would monitor those mechanisms and confirm for the public that the laws and regulations governing them have been scrupulously and expeditiously followed — or that violations have been exposed and dealt with — without political prejudice and without regard to political interests of either party.
How about just make cryptographically signed ID verified votes only viewable by a single machine, mutually agreed upon and inspected by all parties, air gapped and secured by the best the government has to offer, as the source of truth. Almost like pushing paper voting, or broken push-button voting, is kept in place because it benefits the powers that be. What am I saying? Another layer of bureaucracy should solve it!