It is documented by our intelligence agencies that Russia was concentrating on hacking into poorly secured, electronics-only, open networked polling systems being used by precincts in Electoral College critical states in 2016.

Even though this has been proven, even more of these crucial precincts have switched to electronic voting for 2020, and (Moscow) Mitch McConnell has prevented every attempt at congressional legislation to increase the security of elections from coming to a vote.

Electronic voting leaves no paper trail: once hacked, there is no way to conduct a physical ballot recount that can reveal the hacking or determine the true vote — even if the Republican judges in these jurisdictions were to allow recounts, which would be unlikely,

based on the denials they issued to lawsuits in 2016.Mail-in ballots defeat the Russian scheme, because they can’t be hacked and they provide a verifiable marked paper ballot to be used whenever a recount is required.

Putin has made clear to Trump that he must prevent any significant voting by mail in order to defeat the popular vote and secure the Electoral College edge that he managed in 2016.

Accordingly, for years Trump has railed against voting by mail with his patently false claims of fraud — which is ironic, considering he’s against mail-voting in order to enable Russian-orchestrated fraud. COVID-19 has pushed the need for mail-in voting to the forefront

this election, which is why Trump is now doubling down to do whatever he can to destroy the ability of USPS to process mail-in ballots and negate a significant portion of the vote.