Threat actors are threat actors no matter if they are “conscious” or not. Now are current electronic voting machines sufficiently reselient against modern thre

Threat actors are threat actors no matter if they are “conscious” or not. Now are current electronic voting machines sufficiently reselient against modern threat actors - probably not. Especially not in the US where mandating government issued IDs is seen a taboo (I understand why, but as a non-Americans it just seems odd to me) which means that much of modern cryptography backed by “something you have/are” is out of the question. But the argument that machines are only intended to be reselient against “accidental” attacks is simply incorrect. The airline industry is a good benchmark of how to manage threats against automated systems if anything a good argument would be that launching an attack against an airline is simply not cost effective while launching an attack against a nation state to sway an election is a completely different ballgame. And the most important factor is that unlike say causing an airplane to crash you don't actually need to launch a technically successful attack against an election, the allegation and doubt alone can cause long lasting political damage and chaos. So even if you manage to hack a single machine in a single district and nullify only a single vote the doubt that would be cast on the entire election process not to mention the candidates and the political parties behind them can last for years.