Hacking the election
Luke Harding (“Click for regime change,” February) expressed relief that US agencies judged “the types of systems Russian actors targeted or compromised were not involved in vote tallying.” Unfortunately, we don’t know if those systems were hacked.
About a quarter of the US population votes on unverifiable paperless voting machines. If someone hacks the software of those machines, no one will know, because there are no paper ballots to crosscheck and hardly anyone conducts post-election checks for malware. Given that, and the many laws that are designed to prevent recounts, the US is proclaiming: HACK US!