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In reply to the discussion: It is entirely possible votes were tampered with!" [View all]ewagner
(18,964 posts)First, there are too many servers operating independently for counting votes to have this happen on a large scale.
Second, In Wisconsin we mostly use "readers" of paper ballots that are not hooked up to any network whatsoever. In order to hack those machines, each reader would have to have been reprogrammed individually.
Third in my City, like most of Wisconsin, the readers are kept under lock and key by the City Clerk and counts of the total voters recorded manually are compared against the total number of ballots counted by the reader.
Fourth, the state voter registration rolls are subject to hacking and much mischief could (and probably was) done in that data base. But the number of people being turned away for problems with registration was very small and almost always because of no proper ID. The total turned away was pretty insignificant.
I'm sure there are a lot of brighter people out there who can disagree with me but I'm a local elected official and I watch these things pretty carefully.