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

[Mister Ed]

124. I have indeed been part of an election at the county or state level.

I've served as an election judge in every election year since 2006.

Here in Minnesota, audits are required on a small percentage of precincts, randomly chosen. That's a good safeguard against manipulation of central tabulators, since would-be evildoers would not know which precincts would be chosen for audit. I'd like to see a larger percentage of precincts audited every election, to make a good safeguard even better.

My point was not that manipulation of central tabulators would be easy-peasy, and would pass unnoticed. As you say, that's simply not the case (except perhaps in the states with the all-electronic touch-screen voting systems). My point was that an attack on the election system would almost certainly not involve a small army of hackers physically accessing thousands of individual voting machines, as you originally posited.