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It has been known for over 100 years that there is a discrepancy between Maxwell's electrodynamics and the idea of a classical electron as the ``atom'' of electricity. This incompatibility is known under the terms 4/3 problem of the classical electron and radiation reaction force and was circumvented in the currently most successful theories, the quantum field theories, by limit value considerations, by a consistent mutual subtraction of infinities. This raises the question of what minimal changes to the fundamentals of electrodynamics should look like, which contains Maxwell's theory as a limiting case. I show that it is possible to formulate electrodynamics and stable electrons in a way that yields cross sections consistent with the results of QED. I show that it is possible to formulate electrodynamics and stable electrons without the occurrence of divergences. This description leads to electron cross sections that are consistent with the results of QED.