[thinkthenpost]

Generally a voting machine is either stand alone, or in a closed loop, basically just say 6 or 10 machines and an accumulator and there is no connection to anything else. I am not saying they cannot be hacked but I think it would be pretty obvious if the poll workers are paying attention. I believe to really make a difference it would have to someone in an elections department who is involved in the actual totaling of votes. I don't see a way to affect outcomes other than an inside job. Voting machines just aren't online or connected to the web to be vulnerable to hacking attempts.

[John Lenin]

I believe the results are sent in over a modem.

[colorcountry]

I was a poll judge yesterday. The machines register each vote on a papeer tape as well as a memory card. The memory cards are gathered (as well as the tapes) and turned into a central tallying location. If numbers were hacked it would be there.