French election: VAST MAJORITY OF VOTING IS BY PAPER BALLOT, COUNTED BY HAND

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5. unfortunately optiscan machines (or opscans as referred to in article) hackable

Having a paper ballot is great as long as it is hand counted. The optiscan machines have proprietary software and can also be easily hacked. No way for pollworker or registrar to know whether machine truly starts at zero when scanning ballots, no way to know whether votes are counted as cast. And trying to obtain a recount/audit of such elections is nearly impossible and very expensive.

Interesting article at this link:

http://electiondefensealliance.org/florida_op_scan_systems_hacked_three_ways

snip...A little man living in every ballot box
The Diebold optical scan system uses a dangerous programming methodology, with an executable program living inside the electronic ballot box. This method is the equivalent of having a little man living in the ballot box, holding an eraser and a pencil. With an executable program in the memory card, no Diebold opti-scan ballot box can be considered "empty" at the start of the election...snip

...snip...the Diebold optical scan program, housed on a chip inside the voting machine, places a call to a program living in the removable memory card during the election. The demonstration also showed that the executable program on the memory card (ballot box) can easily be changed, and that checks and balances, required by FEC standards to catch unauthorized changes, were not implemented by Diebold -- yet the system was certified anyway.

The Diebold system in Leon County, Florida succumbed to multiple attacks.

Read more: Florida Op-Scan Systems Hacked Three Ways | Election Defense Alliance http://electiondefensealliance.org/florida_op_scan_systems_hacked_three_ways#ixzz4gYWM1cJs
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