I keep reading about voting problems at these machines.
A polling place gets an average of 8 machines from what I can tell. Someone would have to either attack the machines before they are installed, or change the data after the votes are accumulated.
The machines aren't on a network so they cannot be hacked. No one is sending out thousands of hackers to break in to a secure location, open the machine, change the information and get out.
So the only scenario is the program that gets pre loaded is corrupted, which again, you have candidates, issues and other things to be concerned about.
Unless there is a major conspiracy which involves hundreds of people, I am afraid that this whole voting machine manipulation is a myth.
"Unless there is a major conspiracy which involves hundreds of people, I am afraid that this whole voting machine manipulation is a myth."
The line voice of reason on a thread where FReepers parrot a probable troll who only posts voting machine articles. DUers are lauging about this thread.
Why do you believe that a computer must be on a network to be 'hacked'?
What you want to imagine would be a 'myth' is a very real problem, and it affects you, too.