Meet the e-voting machine so easy to hack, it will take your breath away

[JohnnyRingo]

49. I see your point...

Counting votes the old fashioned way, or even using the ancient black or white marbles is pretty open and transparent, but with only humans involved there's still a risk of error and sabotage. No system is 100% secure, but cross checks and bipartisan monitoring gives at least the same chance for integrity and less chance of human error with the machines used here in Ohio. To begin with, our machines are not made by one company, we contract with three for obvious reasons.

The computer voting machines only record the votes, people are still involved in every step of the process to insure the count is accurate. When voting is completed for the day, a printed paper record is sealed and locked away for years in the event of a challenge. Knowing that incriminating paper trail exists is probably enough to discourage anyone from signing their name to a falsified report.

Karl Rove was accused of many incredible feats in Ohio back in 2004, but the ones I've seen hold little merit. It was said he could flip individual voting machines via the internet, but our machines aren't connected to the 'net. Some said his henchmen went to each county (88) and installed software in the thousands of machines, but that would take an army of workers sworn to secrecy and compliant county election board employees. The idea that the SofS would get incorrect results from a :mirror site" doesn't take into account that our county knows haw many votes were cast and for which candidate. If the SofS released different results, there'd be a major problem that couldn't be publicly ignored.

I don't know that the '04 election was on the up & up, but paper printers were installed in time for the '08 election when Obama took Ohio. We no longer trust the machine alone, because those printers involve human cross checking every step of the way, from the voter who watches it printed in real time to poll workers who compare the paper tally with the machine count at the end of the day, and no one goes home until it matches. If necessary, we call the county HQ, but I've never seen that happen.