I have seen Mercer’s name in passing and others. Thanks for the link.
Hacking is plausible without offsite or backdoor entry.
One can plausibly go through the ‘front door’ of the system with a ballot. The ballot can be marked in a nonsensical way including deliberate errors to activate subroutines.
A complete scrub down entails complete information and walk-throughs involving every scenario, and then a review of communication and operating procedures that assure fraud is never able to get in.
A complete scrub down would be similar to reviewing and testing procedures for launching nuclear weapons. There is zero tolerance for error.
The concern is that once fraud is committed, it can be extremely difficult to determine which way the fraud went. This makes it difficult to prove in court.
In the 2004 gubernatorial election between Dino Rossi and Christine Gregoire, the fraud was proven to be 5 times the margin needed to reverse the outcome. Lawyers for the plaintiff (Rossi) proposed a proportional backing out of fraudulent votes, and this would have handed the election result back to Rossi who had won the election and survived a machine recount only to have previously unseen ballots appear during the 3rd manual recount that tipped the election to Gregoire.
The investigation showed without doubt that Rossi was robbed. For example, more than 500 homeless persons were registered to vote and had as their address the County election office (run by a democrat who was forced to resign). But the judge who was a homosexual democrat, after confirming there was indeed a large margin of fraud, ruled that the fraud could not be determined to have gone for or against either candidate.
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Judge-upholds-Gregoire-s-election-Rossi-won-t-1175262.php
This type of fraud has been repeated several times since, across the nation.
Again the concern is not so much the mode of fraud, hack or breach as it is having detection before it happens and authority to stop the counting. The concern is stopping it pre-emptively because it is near impossible to reverse it. It is similar to preventing an assassination rather than risk it happening and relying on doctors to save the victim. It’s a one-way manifestation, frying an egg, squeezing the tube dry, etc. not allowing for reversal.
I think Donald will win the nomination, but will need to spend federal campaign funds and possibly his own to survey the GOP precinct captains and poll workers to ensure they are indeed on his team. To me, the GOPe is joined at the hip with the democrats and they would as soon see Hillary elected than allow Trump in.
Politics is so dirty and dishonest, it will literally take some really strong and rough people to project physical force, and diligent eyes ready to pounce on cheaters. And we need to know how to train the watchful eyes and empower them to stop the crime before it goes too far.
Thank you for your excellent summary. (I sadly remember the Rossi election.) The voter fraud issue has to be pre-emptively done as you said. I hope Trump's people are on this. BTW, have you offered your services to the Trump people? Just a thought. We can't let arguably the most important election in the history of our Republic be taken by the leftists.