WinterGreen Research offers No King! The Law is King! - an exploration of yard signs in Lexington Massachusetts, continuing the protest against the current President.   The People of Lexington have embraced yard signs as a statement of liberty.  The yard signs are in response to Donald Trump positioning himself as King in place of being a duly elected President embracing Constitutional Duties.
 
No King! means just that.  The founders of the US said repeatedly that presidents have no special immunity, as a brief filed by the Brennan Center on behalf of top historians made plain. After all, that was one of the very things about the British monarchy that the colonists hated and against which they rebelled.
 
These are the times when we need to protect the vote count.   The current protests remind us to enbrace integrity in the vote count.  Let us learn to protect the official vote count results with an audit, the same night the official returns are counted, at the time the polls close. 

This can be done by taking a copy of the scanned paper ballots on a random separate pen drive, and using an app to run a digital count at the same time the official tally is being prepared by the poll workers.

A pen drive connected to a poll site blockchain comprised of several Laptop PCs controlled by different entities provides an independent backup.   Due to technology shifts, let us learn new ways to protect the official vote tally.  A separate, simultaneous audit can provide  a way to protect the official vote count.     

An election night audit at each poll site is needed.
 
Secure counting systems provide duplicate results to the official vote count as soon as the polls close.  The security and automated audit system address current vote counting mechanism loopholes. It counts the images of the voter verified paper ballots.
 
The vote counting process can be made accurate with audit counts of all the actual ballots.  The audit system counting is initiatedsimultaneously with the official after polls close election ballot count. The official tally prepared by election day officials typically depends on running voter verified mark sense or other ballots through a scanner as the voter marks them or turns them in.   
 
After Polls Close Elections Audit:
 “Ensure accurate counting mechanisms by 
   putting ballot images in blockchain.  Then 
   create a simultaneous real time backup counting system.”