[48th SPS Crusader]

How is this a secret? Anything that can be programmed one way can be programmed another way.
You put as many safeguards and checks in place as possible, like anything else done with programs and hope for the best, just like everything else.
People act like there was never any fraud or cheating in elections before this..

[Montana_Sam]

Anything that can be programmed one way can be programmed another way.

True. And that is one reason I've had for advocating open-source voting systems.

[arthurus]

The difference between traditional fraud and modern fraud is that in the past each machine had to be rigged by someone. It took a lot of manpower. Now whole districts, some whole states, can be rigged by one worker. We should go back to actual ballot boxes and paper ballots. There would still be fraud but it would have much less effect in state and national elections.

I do not understand the machines that show the voter, if he looks, that his vote for xxx actually registered for zzz. If an electronic machine is rigged it surely can be rigged to show the vote entered rather than the one registered.