KittenKoder
Senior Member
The funny thing is that I have never worried about votes being deleted from the machines, but I have always worried about votes being changed.
It wouldn't be hard to plant code that changed X number of votes after Y number of votes had been cast (Y would be inserted to overcome the standard accuracy tests) in order to sway an election or changing votes cast only between certain hours on certain days i.e. election day. I am not at all insinuating that this has happened, but it could happen. What bothers me is not the idea of someone "hacking" into the machines to effect an outcome, but rather the programmers being bought by one party or the other.
And please don't tell me one party or the other is above such criminal activity!
Immie
Could be done with paper votes just as easily.
Could and probably has been. Gore? Franken?
For that matter how in the world can we positively know that any election results are accurate? We can't. We are supposed to rely on our trust of the election officials. Well, I am sorry to admit, that my elected officials have lost my trust.
Immie
Well ... we are on the same page then, if you back a bit further in the thread.