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In reply to the discussion: Was The Election Actually RIGGED? [View all]Dan
(3,550 posts)I thought on election night that the voting systems had been hacked and the votes changed.
There had been some new accounts that indicated that certain election officials had their account information 'borrowed' . But the articles that I read seemed to state that this would not have impacted the voting. I always thought that was a misunderstanding of how computers/servers worked.
If I had a supervisor (management) computer account and access - then based on their access rights and permissions, it would determine what level of access I would have to the election system, tabulation application (also a factor of what type of database system) - without concern to the balloting component. If the account had permissions - then between the reports (election counts) provided and the next tabulation counts added - a person could in theory change the existing tabulation results. The report is out (counts are provided several times over the course of the day) and each count builds on the results. So, if the existing count totals are changed - the next tabulation results builds on what is already known and assumed is accurate. But if the previous results had been changed, the new tabulation hides the older results changes...because by definition you don't know the new tabulation values or how it is allocated... Plus of course, for each vote changed for someone - it cost the losing person two votes....
I hope that makes sense.. anyway, my opinion.