I used to be a Voter Registrar in Texas years ago. I was talking with a lady that would go to the County Courthouse and pickup the Electronic Voting Machines. When they were signed for the EVM’s would be Booted up to be sure they worked and had the correct office, canidate name and/or bond type info AND that All Counts were at 0/Zero/Zip/Piff/Nil/Naught etc.
I asked her if she turned them all on for the Election. She told Me sometimes. I asked if they were still at 0/Zero when turned on at the Polling Site.
Her reply was “they were at the County Courthouse”
I asked again, this time she said “I don’t know I’ve never looked”
I then explained how simple it would be to make 2 different Autoexec.bat files. 1 that when Booted everything was normal and at 0 and after the 1st Boot it Deleted that Autoexec.bat and Renamed a second file called Two.bat to Autoexec.bat AND then it “doctored” the Vote Count in favor of Xname or Xfunding plan by any quantity wanted...
And trigger a 2nd Delete and a 3rd Rename back to “Normal”.
There Ya have it Folks.
Ensuring the validity of our elections is fundamental to our representative government. It’s ridiculous we are so nonchalant about this.
And 11 year olds all know how to make autoexec files..... not
100%
Easy ....? Wow.