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"Remote access software can be surreptitiously installed on a computer." Says your link.
That means the laws concerning internet hookup could easily be hacked.
Memory chips can be set to flip votes. DRE's can flip votes, so the count out of those machines could be miscounted from the beginning. The only way to check the count is via audit. Audits take days, sometimes weeks. DRE's can not be audited.
What did the trick in Ohio 2004 was, along with the above, and other types of miscounts, was in the network with the state computers where all the data is uploaded electronically and therefore vulnerable to hacking.
What we saw in 2004 was false uploaded data. Thousands of votes had been electronically altered. But before an audit or recount could be done, the die was cast and Bush declared the winner. Subsequently, recounts were kept from being done and the only audits I remember were months later by private individuals.
If indeed Ohio has made these changes we can thank the "conspiracy theorists" that Kos wants to ban. Because without them nothing would have changed.
What most of us know is that we have made it much harder for the type of hack that was done in 2004. But there is still a margin of numbers that can be hacked and if done with deft timing, can get an election called before recounts, audits or verifications can take place and records destroyed.
We are not out of the woods yet, and Kos wanting to shut us up is, and should be to every election protection personnel, distastefully spit out.
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