[osideplanner]

I'm confused about this. A few years ago I worked the polls in Riverside Co. CA. The machines were not networked to any ourside lines or each other. Each machine had a disc and the discs were collected and entered into the central machine at the registrar's office. The collection of the discs into a locked box was witnessed by all the poll workers. Each lockbox was turned in by a certain time after the poll closed. Two people took the lockboxes from each polling place to the registrar's office. I don't know how they can be hacked.

Someone please explain the problem to me.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

"The collection of the discs into a locked box was witnessed by all the poll workers. Each lockbox was turned in by a certain time after the poll closed. Two people took the lockboxes from each polling place to the registrar's office. I don't know how they can be hacked.
Someone please explain the problem to me."
OK. Years ago, I worked at a Shell gasoline station. There was a Diebold TACCII (Timed Access Cash Controller, Model II). I worked the graveyard shift. I discovered, quite upon accident that pushing a sequence of buttons WOULD open the main safe door. I demonstrated this to my manager, who promptly offered to split the contents (about $8k) with me. I refused and contacted the district. Bottom line, they gave me a $50 reward. Big whoop. This same manufacturer want us to let them control our votes. I wonder how much they will pay me to script a macro on a removable media ballot?

[JerseyHighlander]

definition of sneakernetting:
(jargon.) Refers to the channel by which electronic information is transmitted from one computer to another by physically carrying it stored on a floppy disk, CD or other removable medium. This play on words stems from the idea that a person is using their feet, i.e., sneakers, to transfer data instead of through the Internet or an organization's intranet.

The floppy disks ARE the medium of transmission, the poll supervisor is the (witting or unwitting) mode of transmission.

[antiRepublicrat]

Someone please explain the problem to me.

Here's the problem if you were using the Diebold machines. One staffer at any one location managed to get a minute alone with a machine and infected it. The votes on that machine are now modified. The card from that machine is then collected with the others, and fed into the main machine. Whenever that first machine's card is inserted, the main machine is infected, and all of the votes from the district can be modified without a trace.