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Digital only voting machines? The ones I vote for are paper ballot with digital tabulation. If I recall, even a digital voting machine has a paper ballot printed out when the voter finishes their voting selections. Reconciliation between the paper record and the digital results would certainly reveal the voting results manipulation that you seem to be speaking of.
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Both of the party machines will be lining up to contract those that can do that if there's a reasonable chance that it would be successful and undetectable. As I'm pretty certain of what I posted above, I'm not thinking it is.
I agree. Paperless touchscreens can illegally alter vote tabulations and results and if they are criminally manipulated the results will never show any tampering.
Problems with electronic machines were reported nationwide in the last few elections, and this report is from Venango County, PA:
The Myth of the Hacker-proof Voting Machine, N.Y Times, 2018/02/21. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/magazine/the-myth-of-the-hacker-proof-voting-machine.html
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...Errors like these are especially troubling in counties like Venango, which uses touch-screen voting machines that have no backup paper trail; once a voter casts a digital ballot, if the machine misreads the vote because of error, or maliciousness, there's little chance the mistake will be detected. ...
Eckhardt and his colleagues concluded that the problem with the machines made by Election Systems & Software (ES&S), was likely a simple calibration error. But the experts were alarmed by something else they discovered. Examining the election-management computer at the county's office - the machines used to tally official elections results and, in many counties, to program voting machines - they found that remote-access software had been installed on it. ...
Remote-access software is a type of program that system administrators use to access and control computers remotely over the internet or over an organization's internal network...
The software, it turns out, was being used not by a hacker but by an authorized county contractor working from home...
I find this troubling. Voting machines that can be reprogrammed by county officials, and even tampered with from some 'authorized" person unknown to the public at large from home the day of or shortly before or after the election. Machines that, if tampered with and not immediately detected, can alter vote totals which will be impossible to ever detect the malfeasance in later.