Can Paper Ballots Solve Voting Machine Vulnerabilities? [Video]

Oh woe is us! Hackers have found vulnerabilities in voting machines and, gee whiz, there is just no way to fix them before the November election. At least that is what the Politico cybersecurity reporter Maggie Miller would like you to believe.

However, there is a certain word very conveniently missing from her story on Monday and that missing word is “paper,” as in “paper ballots,” which you will find nowhere in “The nation’s best hackers found vulnerabilities in voting machines — but no time to fix them.”

Some of the best hackers in the world gathered in Las Vegas over the weekend to try to break into voting machines that will be used in this year’s election — all with an eye to helping officials identify and fix vulnerabilities.

The problem? Their findings will likely come too late to make any fixes before Nov. 5.

Media Translation: If there are voting machine irregularities this November there was no time to fix …