Re: Guess they didn't use an iSeries...

["Peter Dow (ML)" <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I assume you're talking about during an election.  What about the rest 
of the time, say 6 months before the election?  Is there anything to 
verify the software in the voting machine when they haul it out of 
storage for an election?

Wayne McAlpine wrote:
> That's correct.  But the machines are never out from under the watchful 
> eyes of the poll commissioners at each precinct, so that would be a very 
> difficult thing to do.  The cartridges are kept physically secure during 
> the entire process.
>
> Booth Martin wrote:
>   
> > In other words, to manipulate the totals a villain would need to change 
> > the results as, or after, the votes are cast but before the vote totals 
> > are removed from the voting machine?
> >
> > Wayne McAlpine wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > One of the first principles of managing an elections system, manual or 
> > > automated, is that there is never just one copy of the vote totals. 
> > > Multiple copies of the vote totals from each machine are maintained by 
> > > different governmental entities at different locations.  Totals are 
> > > certified by a Board of Elections Commissioners at the local level 
> > > before they become final in the Secretary of State's computer system. 
> > > It would require collusion on a massive scale to alter the totals.
> > >
> > >       
> >     
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