There are lots of good ideas to make US elections more secure and trustworthy that are low-hanging fruit, easily implemented. Here's my prediction: None of the

There are lots of good ideas to make US elections more secure and trustworthy that are low-hanging fruit, easily implemented. Here's my prediction: None of these excellent ideas will be implemented by either party, and so people will continue to be baffled by the US system. "How is it possible that the US has such chaos every election season?" The potential for bumping up "our guy" in a close race is way too appealing to the party in power. When the reigns change hands, the new party could take the time to tighten election security, but to what benefit? They are now in control. Making things more fair to the other team would only hurt their chances. Election fraud is deeply ingrained in the long democratic political history of the US, from the very beginning. Direct democracy was an untried, unknown concept when the country started. No one but a few ivory tower eggheads who read dense philosophy books really understood what it was all about: "You mean if our guy gets more pieces of paper into that box than the other guy, we can award ourselves all of the government contracts?" It didn't even necessarily start out as nefarious or unethical, just clueless.