Show Me The Source Code Or Throw The Voting Machines Out!!!!!

[Hacking_Democracy]

147. All insiders with access can change the electronic votes, not just the voting machine companies.

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I take your point that if there are untampered paper ballots then a hand recount can be done accurately to
show the will of the voters.

But all the voting systems used in Ohio - Diebold/Premier + ES&S + Hart Intercivic - have been proven to have appalling security holes and exploits which can easily change vote totals for huge numbers of votes.

ES&S ballot scanners and central tabulators are used in three of the most populous counties - Cuyahoga, Franklin and
Summit counties. That's over 2 Million of Ohio's 8 million registered voters. And in addition ES&S (Election Systems & Software Inc.) controls the votes of 38 more Ohio counties.

So in Ohio the transparency of the entire ES&S computer system is one of the biggest questions.

The 'paper trail' or 'poll tapes' printed out by the machines can be easily rigged without anyone detecting that the tabulations software was ever illegally accessed. But at least there are paper ballots. IF they are ever actually counted by hand.