[Dr. Sivana]

Stay away from electronic slot machines. Especially the ones that have a really chintzy sound of coins hitting the pan.

In 1997-98, I worked as a tech on the computers and Keno machines at Foxwoods Casino in Ledyard, CT. I figured the mechanical slots should be okay. Then I saw one of them being serviced (being neither trained, nor having a service license, I did not service slot machines). Notwithstanding all of the mechanical wheels, there's computer chips innside those babies. If software errors can go undetected , so can software designed to gyp the player.

Caveat emptor.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I wonder what they can do with our voting machines?

[SoothingDave]

Of course. The mechanical reels just stop where the computer tells them to. The odds of certain combinations hitting are much more complicated than simply each symbol’s appearance on a wheel.

There have been malfunctions reported before where the reel stopped at the wrong space, making it look like a jackpot.

Thousands of machines making thousands of calculations and movements per day, per casino. Things will happen.