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Most likely the source code would be stolen from whatever Indian sweatshop it was compiled in. When you award contracts to the lowest bidder it is to be expected. Another possibility would be a vulnerability built into the machine itself by whatever Chinese sweatshop designed the machine itself.And, which has been repeated umpteen million times, the ballots have to be loaded on to the machines using a file downloaded off the internet.
And your link for this would be?
I've already provided it multiple times, and people don't read it. What's the point?
You replied to me and I haven't seen it. I'm not adverse to learning new things.
America’s voting machines have serious cybersecurity problems. That isn’t news. It’s been documented beyond any doubt over the last decade innumerous peer-reviewed papers and state-sponsored studies by me and by other computer security experts. We’ve been pointing out for years that voting machines are computers, and they have reprogrammable software, so if attackers can modify that software by infecting the machines with malware, they can cause the machines to give any answer whatsoever.
It doesn’t matter whether the voting machines are connected to the Internet. Shortly before each election, poll workers copy the ballot design from a regular desktop computer in a government office, and use removable media (like the memory card from a digital camera) to load the ballot onto each machine. That initial computer is almost certainly not well secured, and if an attacker infects it, vote-stealing malware can hitch a ride to every voting machine in the area.
Want to Know if the Election was Hacked? Look at the Ballots
Looks like a butt load of supposition and speculation to me. Wouldn't malware need the source code to know how to manipulate it? Just ask'n, I'm no programmer.