[steve-b]

The bottom line is that electronic voting is easy to subvert -- one crack into the system allows you to change as many votes as you like, unlike paper ballots where faking a thousand votes is a thousand times as much work (and a thousand times as much risk of getting caught) as faking one vote.

It's time to forget it and use straightforward paper ballots. Getting results an hour after the polls close is a luxury; trustworthy elections are a necessity.

[DBrow]

"electronic voting is easy to subvert -- one crack into the system"

It is not easy to subvert a closely watched data system. Even harder to do it undetectably.

If it were easy, then computer-controlled doors and gates in a prison would all be open, the Pacer system the US courts use would issue pardons, and passenger flight schedules would be made to order for hackers, and the LATimes Editorial page would have my direct input.