“I do think that the hacking of the system is possible. Too much code, and too easy to leave a back door to get in and cause slight changes in the totals. And there is no paper trail to check results.”
Paperless voting machines are dangerous to the integrity of the voting process.
I say this as an electronics engineer who has spent many years designing similar “secured” systems.
How many among us would feel safe about ATM’s that didn’t give us receipts for deposits or withdrawals?
But we should trust that somewhere, someway, some software writer does not get greedy and leave himself a small trigger point to quietly switch every 5th or 10th vote to the highest bidder.
And if not that, the hacker with just a little inside info can go a long way. Look what happened to Directv. Wonder if voting machine security is better than Directv had? And then there is always the possiblity of a virus.