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The HBO documentary Hacking Democracy shows how easy it is. The Voting Machines In The Feature Film 'HACKING DEMOCRACY' Counted America's Votes In The November 2016 Elections.

During the 2004 presidential election in Florida, Gore had negative votes (or not enough positive ones to reach zero) on some of the voting machines. The smart card prior to being used is initialized and a summation of all the candidates votes is taken and checked to be zero. If some candidates have a positive number and others have negative values and the sum is zero, it passes its integrity check.

See http://www.hackingdemocracy.co...

Watch the 2007 HBO documentary called "Hacking Democracy".
A real eye-opener, all about Diebold's antics.

http://www.hackingdemocracy.com/

Among other things, they showed that you can change the result of a count by altering the contents of the memory card itself.

the voting machines work fine.

I know you are just trolling, but in case anyone worth talking to was reading, I invite you to watch Hacking Democracy. It was on HBO a couple years ago. It exposed serious flaws in the Diebold voting machines, and they even had a computer expert trivially fix a demo election (I believe he never saw a voting machine before and within a couple hours was able to do this) without even having direct access to the voting machines. Diebold was so unhappy about it they tried to get HBO not to show it. Here it is on Google video.

There is a documentary on this very subject. It's very in-depth and very, very disturbing.

It's called "Hacking Democracy".
Official website
You can also stream it directly from Google.

Warning: This documentary will cause severe outrage as you get a small taste of just how corrupt our government really is.

This show is some of the best investigative journalism I have ever seen.

Hacking Democracy
http://www.hackingdemocracy.com/

I would highly recommend that you and your counterpart from the other party watch it.

In case you aren't able to get a hold of it or watch it, I'll summarize it for you here.

• If you're using touch-screen voting machines, you're pwned http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn).
• Optical voting machines, which read or scan a paper ballot, have no internal security mechanisms on the memory cards. The memory cards are inserted into the machines and used to store the total number of votes. These memory cards are vulnerable to tampering both before and after use . Many people remember the importance of ensuring the memory cards aren't tampered with after use (someone can change the numbers). However, it is equally important to prevent tampering before the memory card gets to the ballot machine. Someone could put a negative number on the memory card before it is inserted into the ballot machine so that a candidate will be "in-the-red" before the first ballot is even cast. This is the digital equivalent of ballot stuffing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballot_stuffing).
• The central tabulation software is also highly vulnerable to tampering.

Please keep in mind that these attack vectors come from election officials. Fraud from voters can be stopped by the people who check the name and registration at the door.

To protect against these attack venues, I recommend that no one person be left alone with any memory cards or with the central tabulation computer. In other words:

• Two people are present when the memory cards are blanked out and made ready for use by the ballot machines.
• Two people physically transport the memory cards to the ballot machines and supervise them until they are inserted.
• Two people supervise the removal of the memory cards and the transportation back to the central tabulator.
• Two people are present when the results are loaded from the memory cards into the central tabulator.
• Two people are watching the central tabulator software/computer at all times.

In short, even thought these machines are highly vulnerable to tampering, I think having a two-person system supervise both the memory cards and the central tabulator should put most minds at ease.

You may also want to check out:
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

I hope this helps.

Can you show me some of this blatant evidence?

http://www.hackingdemocracy.com/

(Including the fact that the only countries, ever, where exit polls haven't accurately predicted the outcome are dictatorships with widespread vote fraud - and the US)

I co-produced/directed the HBO documentary "Hacking Democracy" and in the film our Finnish security expert Harri Hursti hacks both the Diebold 'AccuVote' Optical Scan system (using a memory card) and also the Diebold GEMS central tabulator. This hack was done on camera and, by the way, can be seen on the just released DVD . See http://www.hackingdemocracy.com/ The question about fixing these systems intrigues and disturbs me because the security flaw that Harri discovered involves interpreted code in the Optical Scan machines and I believe that flaw has not been fixed by Diebold (Harri discovered it and carried out the hack in December 2005) In addition in 2005 Harri also uncovered a devastating flaw in Diebold's touchscreen machines, which Dr. Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins described as "the nuclear bomb for e-voting systems". And, guess what, that mother of security holes is also still completely unsecured. So where's the fix?