For all the promises that our elections are safe and secure, a major news outlet is now reporting that the voting machines that will be used this November have a number of vulnerabilities, and there is no time to fix them.

Last weekend, a group of hackers convened in Las Vegas for a planned conference that included trying to hack into voting machines so that the vulnerabilities could be exposed and addressed. But according to Politico, there simply is not enough time to fix the problems they found before Election Day.

But of course, the primary concern with the hackers’ findings is not that these vulnerabilities exist, but rather that they will provide fodder for those who are concerned that our elections are insecure and are vulnerable to fraud.

“Many in the election security community are bemoaning the fact that no system has been developed to roll out fixes faster and worrying that the security gaps that get identified this year will provide fodder for those who may want to question the results,” the report said.

It is pretty damning for the “election security community” that the only time it tries to detect these vulnerabilities is three months before Election Day during the most contentious and polarized electoral cycle in recent history. But even more shocking is the lack of concern that government officials seem to have about these potential problems.

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We count on our leaders in government to competently and effectively run elections so that we can be confident that the leaders who are in power are the ones that we elected through the democratic process.

There are less than three months until Election Day. And while early voting begins in several states in just a few weeks, there is no reason that election officials cannot use paper ballots to ensure that any electronic result can be verified with a physical count. The alternative is demanding that the people accept an insecure result, which will further undermine the public’s faith in the electoral system, regardless of which candidate ultimately prevails.