What good is a recount if computers were tampered with?

[Quixote1818]

I must be about the only person on DU who thinks recounts were a stupid idea. First of all if the computers have no paper trail and the computers were rigged to give Bush more votes WONT Bush still win in a recount??????? This is the very first think I thought of. If it were me I would spend the millions for recounts on investigating if voter fraud took place and computers and programs were tampered with. Is their something I am missing here?

[merwin]

1. Not all of the locations recounted lacked paper trail. Most were just

tabulated by computers. So, a full hand recount would do the trick.

However, if the tabulation is rigged, then running them through the tabulator again and moving them back and forth unsupervised between locked doors will most likely produce the same fraudulent results.

[pdurod1]

2. Demand that software and firmware be posted to an open independent

forum. Make sure all same type machines were updated with the right versions of FW and SW. What are they afraid of? I want to see lines of code. Then if you've seen the movie "The Recruit" it's easy to smuggle storage media in and out of a "secure" environment.

[BrendaStarr]

3. It has been determined that the central tabulating computers

would be the easiest points to change the vote totals at.

There were many fewer of them than voting machines.

They were Window machines, connected to the internet and easily broken into. The voting data was stored in easily manipulated spreadsheets on those computers.

The numbers could easily be correct on the voting machines themselves, but changed at the tabulating computer level.