>>There are lots of red herring issues out there, but I don't any of them measure up to this one.

LOL. So who said this of electoral integrity, and on what occasion:

"In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.

If an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote, and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption, the Government may be the choice of a party for its own ends, not of the nation for the national good.

If that solitary suffrage can be obtained by foreign nations by flattery or menaces, by fraud or violence, by terror, intrigue, or venality, the Government may not be the choice of the American people, but of foreign nations.

It may be foreign nations who govern us, and not we, the people, who govern ourselves; and candid men will acknowledge that in such cases choice would have little advantage to boast of over lot or chance. "

(He also said in the same address that the Constitution is subject to change at the will of the people per Article V which currently is denied by some, but that's one of your red herrings;-) .. as is the observation that the "foreign nations" he referred to, was not the Russians )