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Election security is hard, and US elections have some unique problems and constraints (we have, overwhelming, the most complex ballots in the world, for example). There are non-intuitive tradeoffs everwhere.
An excellent resource for understanding US election security, especially as it relates to technology, is this 2018 National Academies consensus study, "Securing the Vote". It was published eight years ago, but is still current.
@mattblaze I want to underline what you said about complexity.
My family are dual citizens, Canadian and US.
My daughter turned 18 and was entitled to vote in both countries.
Her first ballot in Canada had 1 choice: member of parliament.
Her first ballot in California had 81 choices: dozens of local, state and federal elected positions as well as a wall of local and state ballot measures.
That said, there has been significant progress in securing elections since the NASEM study was published in 2018. Paperless "DRE" voting machines have become largely obsolete, greatly reducing the attack surface of elections in most states. And statistically rigorous post-election audits are starting to be performed as a routine part of elections in more and more states.
There's still quite a bit of work to do, but US elections have been getting steadily more secure and robust.
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