[GeronL]

computer voting machines

easily programmed

votes easily lost

votes easily cast (from Census records?)

just 1’s and 0’s

[The Cajun]

People here don't realize how easy voting machines can be manipulated, especially the new touch screen jobs.
I'm a retired electronic tech, give me and my tech friends a schematic of it, a couple of weeks to play with a machine, tell me what outcome you want and we'll have a method to apply to all machines of that type come election day.
Drop a percentage of votes to one candidate, transfer a certain percentage of votes to the other candidate, give a certain percentage of votes to one candidate from the get-go, kick out the actual results and kick in your numbers at the end, etc, etc.
No problem at all, computers can be manipulated so how hard do you think a *dumb* voting machine is to manipulate.
Built in safeguards against tampering........LOL, on that issue.
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