https://amgreatness.com/2020/12/03/cleaning-up-the-mess-of-our-electoral-system/
For those of us who are sane responsible citizens with some modicum of moral and ethical standards, it is time to admit that our electoral system is a complete and utter mess.
What has transpired since November 3 does not take place in serious, advanced societies. It’s what takes place in countries teetering on the edge of becoming banana republics, in which elections are more an opioid for the masses than they are a means to the end of self-government. Our elections now seem designed to give people the impression that their voices and votes matter when in fact nothing could be further from the truth.
We should understand that currently the United States is most assuredly outside the norm when it comes to election integrity. Canada, and for that matter, most of Europe and other developed nations around the world have put measures in place to ensure that their leaders are elected in free and fair elections. If we are smart and still a self-respecting people, we will take the next four years to do the same.
Most of the countries we should emulate—countries like France, Canada, and Germany—begin working from the premise that the more complex the voting system is, the easier it is to hack and manipulate. That is why so many modern nations around the world have outlawed electronic voting machines (EVMs) in favor of good, old-fashioned paper ballots.
In 2009, Germany’s Supreme Court ruled that voting through “EVMs was unconstitutional, holding that transparency is a constitutional right but efficiency is not a constitutionally protected value.” Germany is not the only country to take such measures: the Netherlands, Italy, and about 90 percent of the world don’t use EVMs. Why? Because many agree with the German court: EVMs do not live up to the “constitutional principle of transparency of elections, which requires that voting machines be safeguarded against potential manipulation or error through procedures that are understandable to the average citizen.”