Analysis of the EssayThe author makes a compelling, national-security-focused case for updating federal standards surrounding election software security and vendor supply chains.Key Strengths of the Author's Argument:Bipartisan Framing: Framing cybersecurity as an ongoing, defense-level priority rather than a partisan topic makes actionable policy more achievable.Streamlined Security Patching: Identifying the friction between state certification rules and emergency zero-day vulnerability patching is a critical operational insight.Vendor Transparency: Demanding a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), CVE assignment, and supply chain scrutiny mirrors security standards applied to the Department of Defense.Additional Recommendations to Enhance US Election IntegrityTo complement and expand upon the author's proposals, Congress, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) should consider five additional structural enhancements:1. Implement Standardized Risk-Limiting Audits (RLAs)Beyond Basic Audits: While the author rightly advocates for hand-counted paper ballots, basic manual audits can be inefficient or statistically weak if sample sizes are arbitrary.The Upgrade: Mandate Risk-Limiting Audits (RLAs) nationwide prior to certification. RLAs use statistical sampling of paper ballots to provide a mathematically verifiable level of confidence that the reported election outcome matches the paper record, maximizing scrutiny where margins are tight while saving local election staff time.2. Establish a Fast-Track Federal Security Patching ProtocolThe Problem: State-level recertification requirements can take 6–12 months, leaving systems exposed to publicly known exploits.The Upgrade: Create an emergency "Trusted Patch Architecture" through the EAC. Under this framework, security-only micro-patches that do not alter voting logic can be pre-approved by accredited labs within 72 hours, allowing state officials to apply security updates without invalidating overall system certification.3. Formalize Mandatory Incident Disclosure TimelinesThe Upgrade: Require election vendors and jurisdiction IT administrators to notify CISA and state chief election officials within 24 hours of confirming any breach, unauthorized access, or credential leak involving voting infrastructure, under penalty of losing federal certification.4. Mandate Air-Gapped Physical Architecture & Chain of CustodyThe Upgrade: Pass explicit federal standards prohibiting tabulation hardware from containing wireless networking chips (including dormant Wi-Fi or cellular modems) on primary circuit boards. Require tamper-evident physical seals and dual-custody access protocols for all voting equipment storage facilities to mitigate insider threat risks.5. De-escalate Supply Chain Foreign Dependency via National Defense FundingThe Upgrade: Classify voting machine hardware manufacturing under critical national defense infrastructure. Provide targeted grants via the Defense Production Act to ensure circuit boards, touchscreens, and optical sensors are manufactured, assembled, and vetted entirely within trusted, domestically audited facilities.Official Election & Voting ResourcesFor official guidance on voting rules, state-by-state mail-in deadlines, polling place locators, and election administration standards, refer directly to official government portals:Verify Voter Registration & Polling Places: Check your status or find local voting centers via Can I Vote (National Association of Secretaries of State) or your state's Secretary of State portal.Federal Election Infrastructure Guidelines: Review official security standards, physical security checklists, and incident reporting guidance at the CISA Election Security Resource Library. Voting System Testing & Certification: Access certification reports, audit tools, and clearinghouse standards at the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
Voted yesterday in Florida. Ready for serious changes and upgrades now! Can we really have this Congress take care of anything that needs fixing for our nation. Do not trust they are will or capable of doing anything. Get them out. Brunson case needs to be dealt with and finalized by the Supreme Court. Why has it been 6 years? Nothing. Same old problems.
I'm concerned that information from the CIA is sometimes cited as collaborating "evidence" to support an arguement then in the next arguement the CIA information is compromized or faux...
How long has the CIA operated to provide security information to both sides of every arguement?
Until we have absolute safeguards in place no elections are safe. We must act upon this fraud or risk the integrity and believe in our system overall in choosing how to protect our Republic.
The most damning part is the delay. If the government knew from 2019 through 2024 that election systems had serious vulnerabilities, why is the public getting the consolidated picture now, less than 90 days before the 2026 general election? That question belongs under oath. Congress needs hearings, subpoenas, timelines, names, and reform bills. Certification rules cannot become suicide pacts that freeze known vulnerabilities in place. Vendors cannot hide behind proprietary fog. Paper records are constitutional insurance. Manual audits are legitimacy tools. The republic does not need machine worship. It needs proof.
Dear Mr Navarro, I love your work, your passion, your work on trade, your defense of Trump Time. Love and Pray for Trump. We appreciate the Red Meat Trump2.0 has accomplished. Yes Trump and Republicans are better than the 100% Evil Democrats, but why try so hard to close the gap? But for the America First Second and Last MAGA Crowd, the drift by this administration by a strong man like President Trump, seems to support the theory, that maybe Presidents are not really in that much control. Heck we know the CIA will not even fully brief the President on everything. The first big signs of Drift and Uncontrol was President Trump 2.0down on Covid Crimes Against Humanity, then the horrible BBB, then him knocking off DOGE, then the obvious Protection of the Epstein Pedo Classes. Then the assassination of Kirk, by demonic forces, was the dead canary in the coal mine, that Trump Time 2.0 was going to be very different. Another prime example of Not In Control, is Trump endorsing every RINOs and GOPE he can find. Economically the whole system is starting to feel like 07 maybe even early 08. The Insane Federal Spending and Federal Reserve policies are driving us to that binary cliff of despair. The Uniparty and Bureaucrats controlled by Big Money, clearly rigged the game for the 1% in 08. Afterall when you can force the machine to socialize losses, why not, except that it is not morally right. Bad anti-Free Market Capitalism, breeds and feeds all forms of Marxism, Communism, Socialism and Fascism. Another vicious cycle of nothing new under the sun, of the abuse of the masses by the classes. That is not Conservatism, it is not Capitalism, it is not Free Markets and it is not Christian. Fun Fact if you are into S&M: Trump and GOPE is now responsible for 50% of the National Debt projected to be near $50Trillion by the time Trump leaves office. If we have a 08 style Great Recession, then bailouts of the Rich and Connected would make it north of $55Trillion with a negative GDP. Trump could have, should have been the GOAT, but instead as of today, it looks like Mr Trump is just another GOPE. I would LOVE to be wrong on everything here.
Given the facts and the Democrats' uniform opposition to cleaning up the mess, one can only conclude that Democrats are in favor of crooked elections.
Analysis of the EssayThe author makes a compelling, national-security-focused case for updating federal standards surrounding election software security and vendor supply chains.Key Strengths of the Author's Argument:Bipartisan Framing: Framing cybersecurity as an ongoing, defense-level priority rather than a partisan topic makes actionable policy more achievable.Streamlined Security Patching: Identifying the friction between state certification rules and emergency zero-day vulnerability patching is a critical operational insight.Vendor Transparency: Demanding a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), CVE assignment, and supply chain scrutiny mirrors security standards applied to the Department of Defense.Additional Recommendations to Enhance US Election IntegrityTo complement and expand upon the author's proposals, Congress, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) should consider five additional structural enhancements:1. Implement Standardized Risk-Limiting Audits (RLAs)Beyond Basic Audits: While the author rightly advocates for hand-counted paper ballots, basic manual audits can be inefficient or statistically weak if sample sizes are arbitrary.The Upgrade: Mandate Risk-Limiting Audits (RLAs) nationwide prior to certification. RLAs use statistical sampling of paper ballots to provide a mathematically verifiable level of confidence that the reported election outcome matches the paper record, maximizing scrutiny where margins are tight while saving local election staff time.2. Establish a Fast-Track Federal Security Patching ProtocolThe Problem: State-level recertification requirements can take 6–12 months, leaving systems exposed to publicly known exploits.The Upgrade: Create an emergency "Trusted Patch Architecture" through the EAC. Under this framework, security-only micro-patches that do not alter voting logic can be pre-approved by accredited labs within 72 hours, allowing state officials to apply security updates without invalidating overall system certification.3. Formalize Mandatory Incident Disclosure TimelinesThe Upgrade: Require election vendors and jurisdiction IT administrators to notify CISA and state chief election officials within 24 hours of confirming any breach, unauthorized access, or credential leak involving voting infrastructure, under penalty of losing federal certification.4. Mandate Air-Gapped Physical Architecture & Chain of CustodyThe Upgrade: Pass explicit federal standards prohibiting tabulation hardware from containing wireless networking chips (including dormant Wi-Fi or cellular modems) on primary circuit boards. Require tamper-evident physical seals and dual-custody access protocols for all voting equipment storage facilities to mitigate insider threat risks.5. De-escalate Supply Chain Foreign Dependency via National Defense FundingThe Upgrade: Classify voting machine hardware manufacturing under critical national defense infrastructure. Provide targeted grants via the Defense Production Act to ensure circuit boards, touchscreens, and optical sensors are manufactured, assembled, and vetted entirely within trusted, domestically audited facilities.Official Election & Voting ResourcesFor official guidance on voting rules, state-by-state mail-in deadlines, polling place locators, and election administration standards, refer directly to official government portals:Verify Voter Registration & Polling Places: Check your status or find local voting centers via Can I Vote (National Association of Secretaries of State) or your state's Secretary of State portal.Federal Election Infrastructure Guidelines: Review official security standards, physical security checklists, and incident reporting guidance at the CISA Election Security Resource Library. Voting System Testing & Certification: Access certification reports, audit tools, and clearinghouse standards at the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
A man who overflows stadiums loses to a man who couldn't fill a phonebooth.
That was one of the reasons we knew Biden never got 81 million votes.
Voted yesterday in Florida. Ready for serious changes and upgrades now! Can we really have this Congress take care of anything that needs fixing for our nation. Do not trust they are will or capable of doing anything. Get them out. Brunson case needs to be dealt with and finalized by the Supreme Court. Why has it been 6 years? Nothing. Same old problems.
I'm concerned that information from the CIA is sometimes cited as collaborating "evidence" to support an arguement then in the next arguement the CIA information is compromized or faux...
How long has the CIA operated to provide security information to both sides of every arguement?
For as long as the CIA was created to do so in the fitst place. :)
Until we have absolute safeguards in place no elections are safe. We must act upon this fraud or risk the integrity and believe in our system overall in choosing how to protect our Republic.
The most damning part is the delay. If the government knew from 2019 through 2024 that election systems had serious vulnerabilities, why is the public getting the consolidated picture now, less than 90 days before the 2026 general election? That question belongs under oath. Congress needs hearings, subpoenas, timelines, names, and reform bills. Certification rules cannot become suicide pacts that freeze known vulnerabilities in place. Vendors cannot hide behind proprietary fog. Paper records are constitutional insurance. Manual audits are legitimacy tools. The republic does not need machine worship. It needs proof.
Dear Mr Navarro, I love your work, your passion, your work on trade, your defense of Trump Time. Love and Pray for Trump. We appreciate the Red Meat Trump2.0 has accomplished. Yes Trump and Republicans are better than the 100% Evil Democrats, but why try so hard to close the gap? But for the America First Second and Last MAGA Crowd, the drift by this administration by a strong man like President Trump, seems to support the theory, that maybe Presidents are not really in that much control. Heck we know the CIA will not even fully brief the President on everything. The first big signs of Drift and Uncontrol was President Trump 2.0down on Covid Crimes Against Humanity, then the horrible BBB, then him knocking off DOGE, then the obvious Protection of the Epstein Pedo Classes. Then the assassination of Kirk, by demonic forces, was the dead canary in the coal mine, that Trump Time 2.0 was going to be very different. Another prime example of Not In Control, is Trump endorsing every RINOs and GOPE he can find. Economically the whole system is starting to feel like 07 maybe even early 08. The Insane Federal Spending and Federal Reserve policies are driving us to that binary cliff of despair. The Uniparty and Bureaucrats controlled by Big Money, clearly rigged the game for the 1% in 08. Afterall when you can force the machine to socialize losses, why not, except that it is not morally right. Bad anti-Free Market Capitalism, breeds and feeds all forms of Marxism, Communism, Socialism and Fascism. Another vicious cycle of nothing new under the sun, of the abuse of the masses by the classes. That is not Conservatism, it is not Capitalism, it is not Free Markets and it is not Christian. Fun Fact if you are into S&M: Trump and GOPE is now responsible for 50% of the National Debt projected to be near $50Trillion by the time Trump leaves office. If we have a 08 style Great Recession, then bailouts of the Rich and Connected would make it north of $55Trillion with a negative GDP. Trump could have, should have been the GOAT, but instead as of today, it looks like Mr Trump is just another GOPE. I would LOVE to be wrong on everything here.