It's never to late.
This long article is well worth a read.
If just for a glimpse of the BBV dark ages.
ANNALS OF DEMOCRACY
COUNTING VOTES
By Ronnie Dugger
The New Yorker, November 7, 1988
http://www.newsgarden.org/columns/dugger.shtml...
Shamos believes it "not unlikely for some guy to realize one day, he's sitting there in the room in the midst of all those coding forms-he says, `My God! I can control this whole thing!' " After all, Shamos said, "we have enough tales of hackers who when they found they could do something went and did it, maybe even not with malicious intent, just to show that they could do it."
He then pointed out a second possibility: "Of course, you can imagine that the venders of the system are in with certain politicians. The politicians agree, `Yes, I'll buy this system, if you fix the election my way next time,' and they actually give orders to their subordinates to do it. That's always seemed somewhat less likely to me, because of the possibility of a whistle-blower. Then, the third possibility is tampering by someone not in the employ of the company, by a break-in at the vending company."
Summing up, Shamos said, "What does it mean that one company is controlling a large fraction of the voting in the United States? If you provide the software, you are controlling, even if you are not manipulating. Computerized vote-counting doesn't occur in the light of day, it occurs inside silicon in a little black box. That box is completely under the control of the vender, and if anything wrong happens we might never find out."
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Shamos has proposed that persons who have criminal records for acts of "moral turpitude" should be barred from the vote-counting-equipment business.
Buy that man a hamburger.