The Russians just had to flip 40,000 votes in three States

[Lee-Lee]

55. Ok, how?

Voting machines do not hook to the internet.

So to hack them you either need to change the software/firmware inside them in order to make them miscount votes, or else you need to change the results stored in the memory between when the election starts and when the memory cards are read.

To do the first would require the hacker to break into the place they are stored, take the machine out of storage, either open it and swap phucoal compnents in the form of drives or chips or power the machine up, hook up another computer, download new software. Then power it back down, put it back in storage, and leave.

Without getting caught.

And to successfully change the results of an election that would have to be done to thousands of machines in hundred of precincts/counties.

And done thousands of times absolutely 100% perfectly without leaving any trace that is detected later, to include being able to avoid disturbing anti-tamper seals, all security systems, etc.

That’s the stuff of movies, not reality.

The other option is they messed with the memory on machines. That means they have to access the memory cards or chips between when the polls close and when the votes are counted. But that entire time they are under seal and poll observers from both parties are transporting them together. They can’t hack the cards earlier because they won’t know how many people will vote in thy polling place, so they couldn’t make the totals add up. They would have to change votes after the polls close. And once again, evading all detection and doing it to thousands of machines.

So far nobody has told me how the Russians could pull that off thousand sof times to thousands of machines in hundreds of locations without anyone catching on to anything.