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

[JohnnyRingo]

50. You didn't understand what I said.

The paper printout here isn't a receipt, it stays with the machine until the end of the day. Voters can watch their vote as it prints out and a final total is printed on the roll. When we remove them that night a person from each party records the tally and compares it to the machine's count. If those numbers match, the roll is then signed by each worker and locked in a box with a security seal for return to the election board by two workers- one from each party- where it's stored under lock & key for several years in case of a dispute or recount.

The machines themselves are also locked with a tamper proof security seal until returned to county HQ. Some people don't trust the machines and ask for a paper ballot, not understanding that their ballot is fed through a computer scanner at the elections board anyway. It looks like an SAT test with small circles to color in, but it makes some feel better.

I can't vouch for the '04 election results here in Ohio, but when democrat Ted Strickland took office as governor in '07 he made sure every machine in the state had that paper trail that ensures voter integrity. I remind that Obama won Ohio handily in '08.

I should point out too that it's a misconception that our election is counted by one company. We use three unrelated companies to supply the machines to avoid the obvious pitfalls of such a system. If the machines from one supplier overwhelmingly favors republicans it would be a huge red flag that would cost millions in lost contracts and likely result in criminal charges once the paper trail is audited. No corporate CEO is going to chance bankrupting his company and losing future contracts just so he can elect pols who presumably would give them lucrative government contracts. It's so much more profitable to make millions a year by offering a fair and accountable election, especially when it's so easy to get caught.