Every day brings news that undermines public confidence that the vote this fall will be free and fair. Recent reports warn of registration irregularities, the fraud-prone nature of mail-in ballots and the problematic provenance, software and internet connections associated with machines used to tally them and other votes.

 

Too many election officials of both parties seem determined to look the other way.

 

Fortunately, New Hampshire has actually conducted an audit of the state’s election software and found, among other troubling results, that foreign developers had it connect with offshore servers. 

 

At a bare minimum, every state should be required to do the same. And any that fail even the most basic security protocols must default to the one that reliably works: with few, legitimate exceptions, same-day voting with hand-counted paper ballots cast by legal voters providing proof of identity and citizenship.

 

This is Frank Gaffney.