5 Ways To Protect The Sanctity Of Future American Elections

5 Ways To Protect The Sanctity Of Future American Elections

By Richard Brody

We may, or probably, will not, ever, fully know, all the details, about the level of, reasons, or motivations, behind, the interference in the 2016 Presidential elections, by foreign interests! Nearly every intelligence agency, and a considerable amount of evidence, which seems to be constantly expanding, indicates their was clearly, interference, either by the Russian government, or certain parties. President Trump has been an apparent holdout to this conclusion, by focusing on his election, rather than the far greater, more relevant issue, of how to learn, as much as possible, to ensure, our future elections, are fair, and pure! Unfortunately, this has become another of those partisan issues, where politics has seemed to take precedence over substantive service to effective public policy, which best serves the United States of America, and the important aspects of our freedoms and rights. With that in mind, this article will attempt to briefly examine, consider, and discuss, 5 ways we might, possibly, best protect the sanctity and integrity of future elections.

1. Examine digital imprints: How did cyber - crimes affect our recent elections, and what can we learn, to better protect us, from this continuing to occur, in the past? Our nation should utilize the skills, knowledge and expertise of our finest minds, in the fields of computers, etc, to oversee the process, and look at potential ramifications, and how to best protect ourselves. While what happened in the past, is important to investigate, and, it seems, at least from an optics - perspective, the President and his supporters, are focusing too much effort and attention, to minimizing this investigation (we should ask why, and what they might be hiding), it is far more important to use this investigation, to learn the best future approach. Just as we protect ourselves from potential terrorism, in other forms, it's important, to, also, do so, when it comes to cyber - crimes!

2. Better confirm identities: We live in a world of ever - increasing, identity theft, in nearly all aspects of our lives! Social media sites must do a better job, of ensuring the quality of the factual basis of posts, as well as being certain, these postings, are not an attempt, by outside parties, to influence the results of our elections. This must include, but not be limited, to a better way, of confirming identities, etc.

3. Mandatory fact - checking: Making certain, information is accurate, is often, far more challenging, than it appears! Mandatory fact - checking should be implemented, regarding statements articulated by specific candidates, and their campaigns, as well as ads and social media postings!

4. Examine unusual trends: Processes and procedures, often, create certain trends, which, might, either indicate who the responsible parties, might be, and/ or their objective!

5. Improve/ encrypt/ protect data: With all the ways, data can be hacked, and/ or influenced, perhaps, there might be better ways, to improve, how we encrypt, and protect all data, etc. Certain companies, such as BlackBerry, have demonstrated expertise, in doing so, and, we should learn from them, and take advantage of their efforts, knowledge and wisdom!

These are only 5 basic ways, to protect the sanctity and integrity of future American elections. We must do so, if we hope to preserve our way of life!

Richard has owned businesses, been a COO, CEO, Director of Development, consultant, professionally run events, consulted to thousands, conducted personal development seminars, and worked on political campaigns, for 4 decades. Rich has written three books and thousands of articles. Website: http://plan2lead.net and LIKE the Facebook page for common sense politics: http://facebook.com/commonsense4all

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