Voting machines, only as good as the people that police them. Order a barge load of lubricate, we all will need it.

Now how the hell can they hack a voting machine?

helllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll no!

mc89 Good to see you back, on one of the talk shows a few years back, a man that used to work for the company that made the software sit across the street from a polling booth and in a mock election he manipulated the outcome from his laptop. May have been Bill Gates company; but not sure, will have to do more research.

They never designed these things to be hackproof. That's why Ohio (even under Republican secretary of state Ken Blackwell) would only use them if they also left a paper trail. Unfortunately, a paper trail can fail if the printer gets a paper jam, as the article pointed out. It also doesn't protect against votes added by a hacker, provided the hacker adds enough to make the margin of error large enough not to trigger a recount.

I don't know if the full article mentioned this (didn't read all 6 pages), but Ohio is looking at replacing electronic voting with optical scan equipment.