Election security vulnerabilities exist, though there's no evidence they've altered election outcomes at a large scale. Researchers highlight voter-marked paper ballots and rigorous audits as the best security measures. They differentiate between vulnerabilities and actual exploits, stating that a flaw doesn't mean it has been used to compromise an election.One significant vulnerability is paperless voting machines, still used statewide in Louisiana, which lack a paper trail for verification. Ballot-marking devices (BMDs), while aiding accessibility, are also susceptible to hacking and errors, with voters sometimes missing mistakes on the printed ballots. A software flaw in Georgia's vote-counting system could potentially link individual voters to their ballots, although a patch was released. The implementation of such software updates is not consistently tracked nationwide. While systems have cybersecurity weaknesses, there is no direct evidence of widespread election outcome manipulation. Voters should be aware that both system flaws and the absence of large-scale exploitation can be true simultaneously.