From the article:
“...[Professor] Halderman said it’s irrelevant whether machines are connected to the internet: A foreign government could break into an election office in a closely contested state and install malware on a computer that supplies the ballot design to voting machines. Such malware could shift a few percentage points of the vote to a candidate and erase itself after polls close, Halderman said.”
Well, if the malware erased itself after the polls closed, what difference would recounting the electronic ballots make in this case? Shouldn’t Stein, et al, be demanding that the computer supplying the ballot design undergo forensic examination for evidence of tampering or that the voting machines in 9000 precincts undergo a similar examination?
By the way, with no Internet connection, how were the voting machines loaded with the ballot in the first place? Thumb drive?
One last question. Has there been any evidence of a break-in?
Speculation upon speculation upon speculation.
Smart “Professor” Halderman (PhD in 2009) assumes that foreign governments have supernatural abilities to predict how each state will vote. Why wouldn’t the same foreign governments conduct their evil activities in CA and be done with it? Or in NY, for that matter?
I would love to spit in the distinguished professor’s face while he’s counting his bloody money...