I'm of the opinion that the headline is true, but only vacuously -- foreign agents are not a threat to our elections (except where they attempt to directly compromise voting infrastructure), and similarly the threat from bad voting machines is extremely small.
There are enough checks in the system (bipartisan counting and validation committees) that a pure digital compromise of an election that would not be flagged and detected is very small.
There are much more pressing matters, like access to voting stations (both distance and time), voter roll purging, ballot design flaws that make voting fundamentally error prone, and (controversially) a lack of identification requirements for elections that make certain classes of fraud difficult to detect.
I think on balance, all-remote elections, like Oregon has had for a while, and I think Washington now too, are the best balance here. There are certain vulnerabilities around buying, compelling, and selectively harvesting votes, but with universal cell phones, "proof of vote" is too easy to obtain anyway so those ships have mostly sailed, and it seems like a reasonable tradeoff to make.
There are enough checks in the system (bipartisan counting and validation committees) that a pure digital compromise of an election that would not be flagged and detected is very small.
There are much more pressing matters, like access to voting stations (both distance and time), voter roll purging, ballot design flaws that make voting fundamentally error prone, and (controversially) a lack of identification requirements for elections that make certain classes of fraud difficult to detect.
I think on balance, all-remote elections, like Oregon has had for a while, and I think Washington now too, are the best balance here. There are certain vulnerabilities around buying, compelling, and selectively harvesting votes, but with universal cell phones, "proof of vote" is too easy to obtain anyway so those ships have mostly sailed, and it seems like a reasonable tradeoff to make.