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Quote Former Associate General Counsel for Intelligence Law at NSA:

Presidential elections are the most important action of participatory democracy that our citizens take. And we need to find ways to incentivize or require states to ensure that voting systems maintain the appropriate levels of confidentiality, integrity and availability. That starts with recounts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

Is it likely to change the results of the 2016 presidential election? No. But this is not a question of partisan rancor. We ought to be applying similar requirements for data security, investigation of potential compromises, and transparency in the reporting of results to our biggest decisions as we do to far smaller ones. For the current and long-term legitimacy of our election process, we should #AudittheVote.