Was the return of the paper ballot in VA a factor in Tuesday's election or its results?

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8. You have no way to know

You and the CT people are roughly in the same boat. There is no way to prove one way or the other if vote hacking happened in VA or elsewhere. The system used for over 15 years in northern Virginia was probably the worst voting technology of all time. No paper trail was only the beginning. It had multiple known problems just tabulating the votes. But worse, it required WiFi to operate, using clear text, and hardwired passwords such as ABCDE, and remote modification of vote totals without any audit trails.

So with barely any knowledge, you or I need only get within WiFi range, use our smartphone to logon as admin, and edit the totals on the screen to anything we want. No audit trail, no indication we had ever been on the machines. There were similar problems with the central tabulating parts of the system.

Even with all the many known problems, VA continued to certify these systems for another ten years. Did anyone ever hijack these systems? No one knows.

I think that it is easier to steal elections by screwing with the voter roles, either by aggressive purging or by direct hacking. Being denied a ballot on a technicality or forced to use a provisional ballot — that is where elections are likely stolen.

As for CT sites, I recommend places like the Brennan Center.