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The rules for holding elections are reserved to the state legislatures in the Constitution. However, Congress can affect election rules in some ways. Something which has been observed regarding the 2024 election is that Elon Musk was observed continually checking his phone while watching the election with Trump. Some people who were also present have stated that after the polls closed in Pennsylvania, but before the preliminary results were being reported, Musk said after checking his phone something to the effect that we've got this and he was going home. Musk, either himself or with the talent available to him, is one of the people capable of writing programs for the internet which would allow him access to real-time voting machines, tabulators, and polling sites connected to the internet while remaining very difficult, if not impossible, to detect. Once reading access is enabled, writing access would not be difficult to achieve. This makes a computerized system vulnerable at any level. The hacker can choose the number of votes cast, distribute them as they choose, and decide winners and losers with percentages won or lost. The system can be hacked at any level - individual voting machines, tabulators or the results forwarded to central collection points. ines must be To stop this, and protect the election integrity with which the Republicans seem so concerned, Congress could pass a law, or laws, that all election mach electronically and physically separated from the internet. Machines can be interconnected within an election site, but there must be no outside access. Results would have to be returned by voice telephone from a human physically present at the site, to a human physically present at the collection site, a nd entered into a tabulator also separated from the internet. media and interested parties. The human doing the final counts, on a non-internet connected device, would then personally make a vocal report through a press conference/release to the