Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director R. James Woolsey Jr., a veteran of four presidential administrations and one of the nation’s leading intelligence experts, believes we should be worried about election security on a number of levels — though he says there are some relatively easy fixes.
Woolsey was recently interviewed in a new documentary on the subject, titled “The Real Activist,” set to release today, November 3, 2020 on Amazon Prime. The documentary explores the vulnerability of future U.S. elections as well as solutions to secure the voting process, and interviews a number of computer scientists, politicians and activists, in addition to Woolsey, including one of the creators of open source software and a veteran in banking system software Brian J. Fox. Moving election software from being held under private licenses by tech companies to openly sourced software, allowing for more transparency in the voting process itself as well as security of the voting process, is discussed in the film.