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

[Ms. Toad]

35. Think about how you would carry that out in real life.

First, you have to be in a jurisdiction with older Sequoia machines. Doesn't work on most machines, because most machines are touch screen, not hardwired panels, including Dominion, the Sequoia successor. There aren't that many who use that machine.

Second, to carry it out you would need physical access (and time) to swap enough panels to make a difference in the vote, Swapping one out one panel at a time, rigging the next panel, swapping it out, rigging the next, etc. makes installing the hack ridiculous. The suggestion that a voter would be able to remove the panel on that monstrosity behind a voting curtain and not be noticed is ludicrous. (Aside from which, the privacy panels on the side replace curtains in most jurisdictions, so you would be removing it in full sight of voting officials.) As for storage - I can only tell you about the place I was an election monitor. Even if you had all the replacement panels prepared, there is no way you could pull the panels and replace them in the storage room without being noticed. And - as for not breaking the seals, I am less familiar with the Sequoia Advantage than others, but I would be extremely surprised if there are not tamper resistant seals on the privacy shields, since opening those exposes the ballot itself.

Third, there are multiple ballots in most jurisdictions to avoid position bias. To make sure you swap the right votes, you have to know the physical layout of every possible ballot so you know which panels to swap out.

Fourth, if you incorrectly predict how people vote, you risk stealing the election against yourself, since all it does is switch all of the votes for one candidate with all of the votes for another.

Fifth, you would need someone within a half mile of each voting location in order to turn hacking on or off. That's a lot of people to keep a secret. Just not happening.

Granted - it shouldn't be possible to switch votes, even on a single machine. But as far as changing the results of an election, it is a cheap parlor trick to generate fear that elections are actually being stolen.