" Of all the gin joints..." (Black box election fraud just happened to me.)

[Ms. Toad]

29. Because no one, so far, including you

has addressed the real life challenges I have suggested about specifically how such fraud would be carried out.

Vendor programmers who do the logic programming of the machines are the ones who would need to write the code that would be capable of finding and flipping votes. They are the only ones who have access to all of the software on all of the machines. The fields in the database, however, are not party or candidate specific, so programmers cannot just write a routine which finds the fields labeled "democrat" so that they can shift a portion of the votes to the republican candidate. While the programmers do create - in essence - boxes to hold each candidate or issue, the programmers do not label the boxes by party. They can't just go find the democrat box. Not only that, but within the box although there will be a file for the party name - that party name is not created by the programmers, and there are no rules (aside from field length) about how local officials name the parties - so the vote flipping routine you allege can't even just look in each box, and check the first file in each one to see if it is a democratic candidate, since the local official might have decided to use initials only. Or numbers. Or the first 2 letters, 3 letters, etc. And each jurisdiction can give different party names to each candidate.

The party names, are added by local election officials - who have neither the access nor the programming ability (in most cases) to write the logical code that would be needed to shift the votes. Even if one or two local officials figured out how to break in and modify the code, it would be too small a variation to impact anything other than a local election - and it

And - whatever scheme the programmers come up with would need to be manipulable on a national scale without the knowledge of the local election officials (or of specifically how they entered the ballots in their individual counties), since keeping a secret of that magnitude among a cast of thousands is laughable.

If you are going to allege that there is vote shifting going on, rather than the infinitely more likely human or computer miscalibration, then you need to be able to explain the logic by which it happens with the real life restrictions that exist. So far, as I have noted, no one has. Waving your hands and saying that hacking is always possible just doesn't cut it.