Another piece about this on Fox News tonight. Fox urged buying new and less hack prone voting machines. Wanted voting machines to output a paper trail for use in case of recounts.
Actually, we need to scrap all the voting machines and go back to paper ballots. A voting machine is just a desktop computer running a "look-at-me-I-am-a-ballot" program. They can all be hacked in all the ways computers can be hacked. At least a dozen different ways occur to me. It was suggested to have the voting machine output a paper trail (print out a ballot showing how the voter voted). This doesn't do any good. Hack the voting machine's code and you can make it print out anything you want. And the voter doesn't get a chance to review it and take action if it isn't right.
Paper ballots can be saved in case of recount. Paper ballots cannot be hacked over the internet.
Let's go low tech.
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