re: Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software

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It was my understanding that most machines aren't connected to the net. Not sure how much manipulating can be done.

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From the article, Diebold required remote access in the contract. And ES&S reported that their tech support had gone remote to the machines. Also, tech nerds know how to go online and find machines connected to the net that have a certain platform. From there they can tunnel in to find specific machines. Once they have that, they just go right back to it whenever they want. Beyond that, if there was something nefarious going on, the machine IDs would already be known and connecting to them would be easy.

In many districts where the outcome of a House election is 10,000 votes or less, you wouldn't have to get to too many machines to make that happen. And a few machines in red counties, making them a much smaller margin for republican will flip a state for governor or senator.

We should have paper ballots and every precinct in the nation should have boxes under armed guard by National Guard troops, that oversee ballots put in boxes, that boxes are sealed, unsealed properly, and oversee all of the counting. I would be just fine having to wait two days for election results as opposed to a few hours, in order to protect the integrity of the process.