> the institution will suffer serious harm The republic is experiencing significant harm. If it was not, people would not be talking about it. > How will you

> the institution will suffer serious harm The republic is experiencing significant harm. If it was not, people would not be talking about it. > How will you know if an electronic voting system produces a wrong result, except by running a paper voting system in parallel? Audits? Open Source? Checksums? Hashes? We have many tools to verify the integrity of electronic data (I also never claimed it had to 100% digital) > Do municipalities choosing voting machine contractors have incentives aligned to promote election integrity? Can they critically evaluate security properties of what they're being sold If the choice is federally verified company A or federally verified company B, then yes.