Demand paper ballots be used in all 2018 elections

Senator Ron Wyden (OR-D) recently introduced the Protecting American Votes and Elections Act of 2018, which requires all elections to use paper ballots and increases the number of audits.

Contact your Reps in Congress right now and demand they pass this bill and help protect the 2018 Midterm elections from Russian interference.

Donald Trump refuses to listen to the top national security leaders, military commanders, and intelligence agencies' warnings about the threat Russia poses to the 2018 midterms. So it's on us to make sure Congress takes the necessary action!

Here are 5 other practical ways for Trump and Congress to protect our elections that we're demanding they implement right now:

1. Improve voting systems: By investing in upgrading and better defending voter registration systems, voting machines, tally servers, and other systems that collect and verify votes, states can increase accuracy and protect against tampering.

2. Embrace paper: Voting machines without a paper backup provide no hard copies to verify votes. Reliance on digital voting machines alone leaves states more open to hacking and less able to determine an election's result in the event of an attack. The online voter registration systems that many states use need paper back-ups as well, especially since many of them have already been targeted by hackers.

3. Audits: Requiring states to conduct post-election audits to compare paper votes to the digital results will help determine if any vote tampering has occurred and its extent.

4. Transparency on social media: Russia also interfered through propaganda spread on social media. Allowing sites like Twitter and Facebook to regulate themselves is not enough. The government needs to step in and require more accountability and transparency for all political content on social media.

5. Disrupt Russian hacking: Cyber security experts point out that there are several ways for the U.S. military and intelligence agencies to disrupt Russian hacking, but Trump has yet to give them authorization.
 

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