@MsDidi

As many of my other posts on this thread explained, I agree a cleaner vote will not solve everything that is wrong with society, human nature and U.S. politics. I don't think anything ever will. However, I think trying to fix something we may have a reasonable shot at fixing is worth the attempt.

1. Technology won't fix it. In my district, we have paper ballots, but the gerrymandering is so severe that we have a rep. who refuses to meet with his constituents and is perpetually re-elected. If we can't overcome gerrymandering and the role of big money, the method for counting the votes won't matter.

2. There's been election fraud for a long time - it's not dependent on paper or machines, but on corruption. When Clinton first ran I worked as a poll watcher in black precincts in an urban area. As with Detroit this year, more people typically voted than there were voters. Small-time thugs had the social security numbers of deceased voters in the district, and the dead voters showed up every election. The Clinton teams understood this well and outbid everyone else. My point is that the imposters who came into the polls and voted wouldn't be stopped by using paper ballots versus machines.

3. Whatever theme or rallying cause is chosen, I'd like to consider means as well as ends. A fish can't see the water it swims in. As the millennial generation begins to see clearly the true nature of TPTB and wants to resist, it also has to address a blind-spot regarding technology and modes of communication. When the Black Lives Matter movement started we had rousing rallies at our local university, but the next day there were no signs, no buttons, no t-shirts. The rally was invisible unless you'd personally attended. In fact, that same university -- the largest in a rust-belt state -- doesn't even permit hanging posters or leaflets with political content! They are methodically taken down when posted -- each night the custodians remove them -- and the students don't seem to see this as part of the problem they are fighting. Social media is great for organizing but unless the resistance is visible it loses traction very quickly. If you don't believe this, consider the role that Trump yard signs played in the last election. I've never seen so many signs in any election. Driving out of urban areas in any direction, one was confronted with a continuous stream of Trump signs. The access lanes to major highways were full of them. The effect was to embolden those who thought they might be ostracized for supporting him -- and to give visible evidence of a huge movement growing in numbers. The struggle has to be visible, has to have slogans that wake people up, and it's breadth of support has to be tangible -- on bumper stickers, buttons, yard signs, etc. That emboldens people and unites them. Twitter only works for strong men like Trump -- the masses look for what's collectively shared. And some people over 50 -- people who vote regularly and remember what democracy was like -- don't even understand how to get onto boards like this one. We have to build a united front, based on issues that can mobilize masses of people in visible ways in order to make progress.