it's the fucking touchscreens ppl.

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229. Unless there is a manual recount votes can be flipped undetected

At least if you believe Anonymous. They claim to have caught Karl Rove inserting electronic tunnels to a “man in the middle” vote tabulation server that could flip votes. Insiders involved in installing Rove’s man in the middle software in Ohio in 2004 claim to have direct knowledge of this. A prime witness who was set to testify died in a plane crash when he was piloting his Cessna. Leading up to his testimony he told others he was worried someone would tamper with his plane.

Anonymous claims to have thwarted Roves attempt to install these tunnels in 2012 in 3 states: FL, OH, and VA.

https://truthout.org/articles/anonymous-karl-rove-and-2012-election-fix/

Here is a pretty long article about how easy it is to change voting tabulations. It almost certainly happened in 2004.

https://harpers.org/archive/2012/11/how-to-rig-an-election/

“Late on Election Day, John Kerry showed an insurmountable lead in exit polling, and many considered his victory all but certified. Yet the final vote tallies in thirty states deviated widely from exit polls, with discrepancies favoring George W. Bush in all but nine. The greatest disparities were concentrated in battleground states—particularly Ohio. In one Ohio precinct, exit polls indicated that Kerry should have received 67 percent of the vote, but the certified tally gave him only 38 percent. The odds of such an unexpected outcome occurring only as a result of sampling error are 1 in 867,205,553. To quote Lou Harris, who has long been regarded as the father of modern political polling: “Ohio was as dirty an election as America has ever seen.” “