2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Trump will no longer be useful to the GOP come Jan. 21st!! [View all]ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)The vote tabulators - contrary to what Comey said to Congress - ARE online and are hackable. Here's the ES&S software:
http://essvote.com/products/1/1/Tabulators/DS200
Here's a brand new article explaining their vulnerabilities:
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/recountnow/pages/34/attachments/original/1481829147/DS200_wireless_security-2-2-Jim-March.pdf?1481829147
The first known electronic election hack occurred in Volusia County Florida during the 2000 Presidential race. This vote tabulator hack - known at the "Hursti Hack" allowed George W. Bush to separate enough from Al Gore (by shifting 16,000 votes out of Gore's total, and adding 2,000 to Bush's) to be called (by his first cousin) the President-elect - a status he maintained throughout the recount -always allowing him to act like the victim - with Gore trying to steal something that was his. Hacking is far more sophisticated now than it was 16 years ago, while these machines remain nearly as vulnerable. wikipedia's link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volusia_error