Hey, Democrats. I know you're worried about GOP hacking electonic voting machines.

[The Traveler]

11. Electronic voting CAN be reliable and auditable

If ya just gotta have electronic voting ('cause you don't want the stress of waiting for the counts) then it can be done. But the machines in place aren't worth crap. They have little to no protection against tampering, and they provide no indication that tampering has occurred. In this day and age, there is no excuse for that negligence.

In my view, the voter should also get a paper receipt ... one which the voter can read and which is dropped in a box for election integrity verification purposes. The receipt would provide a human readable format for the ballot selections, a bar code expressing those selections, and a transaction hash, and a transaction sequence hash which basically makes tampering with the machine record detectable. If the transaction record or transaction history hashes don't add up ... then a recount of the paper receipts must be done.

In other words, you could possibly tamper with the records, and tamper with the counts, but such tampering would be detected.

The code for such a system should be open source, so that computer security folk can examine it in detail for flaws, back doors, etc. Test system s

So, yeah, it could be done. But why bother unless you are in a hurry? Sensibly designed paper ballots will get ya there without hanging chads and such.

Trav