Princeton University Exposes Diebold Flaws

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3. I have questions.

I was fascinated by the video, but am doubtful that this physical manipulation can go unnoticed for thousands upon thousands of voting machines.

I am a volunteer firefighter in our rural district. Our firehouse also serves as a polling station.
Usually, seven machines are delivered the night before an election, and left stacked on the floor unattended until the poll workers show in the morning.

The machines are untended, and guarded solely by a locked door. I CAN see someone getting in, and physically manipulating the machines, even taking some apart to install the code...one time, two times, three times, but eventually, this election burglar WILL be caught by one of our firefighters going to the station at 3AM to obtain equipment for fighting fires.

It is not uncommon for one of us to be at the station working on a truck or our gear at 3AM.
If any of us see an unknown vehicle stop at or parked at our station, we ALWAYS stop and check it out. (An unknown sneaking around our Fire Station in the middle of the night will probably get shot. I don't carry, but almost every other fire fighter does.)
FireFighters, Search & Rescue, and Medical First Responders are ON CALL 24/7. We would catch someone in our house...probably the first time they tried.

AND, this must be repeated thousands of times at thousands of other polling stations.
Individual manipulation of the voting machines by humans on the scene WILL BE CAUGHT,
sooner rather than later. I can't see the above process being successful across the nation without one of these Midnight Burglars being caught.

Again, it would take THOUSANDS of specially trained burglars to affect a single election. No conspiracy involving that many people stays secret for long.

If our elections are being manipulated (and I believe they are), it will be at the Tabulator stage of the vote counting & reporting,
OR by some electronic method that does NOT require the presence of thousands of human beings physically manipulating thousands of machines in the middle of the night.