[luvbach1]

The software producers should and could prevent this machine fraud. Such safeguards should be an integral part of the software's design. Programmers and/or software architects please correct me if I'm wrong.

[tndarlin]

Why can’t they make a machine that prints out your vote like a reciept as a paper trail?

[algernonpj]

The software producers should and could prevent this machine fraud. Such safeguards should be an integral part of the software's design. Programmers and/or software architects please correct me if I'm wrong.

You are absolutely correct. However much government programming is either out-sourced or in-sourced to the cheapest guest workers they can find.

FYI studies have shown that both electronic voting machines and internet voting are open to being hacked. A study in Princeton NJ hacked the electronic machine using a cell phone.