14 states' voting machines are highly vulnerable. Howd that happen?

[lordsummerisle]

Texas counties have doled out millions of dollars in recent months to replace thousands of old touch-screen voting machines that lack a paper record – a weakness security experts warn could allow Russians or other hackers to rig U.S. elections without detection.

The problem is, many of the new machines have the same vulnerability. So do similar machines in more than a dozen states across the country.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article207851784.html#storylink=cpy

[dchill]

1. HAVA.

[Amaryllis]

6. +1,000,000

[triron]

2. This is definitely a problem and challenge to integrity of the voting results

[thewhollytoast]

3. Gee I wonder why all these red states have such crappy machines in the first place?

Could it be that the GOP likes to steal elections? Funny, But I'm not laughing.

Toast

[FiveGoodMen]

4. A paper record wouldn't do it.

You program the computer to display a D vote on the screen AND the paper record, but NOT on it's hard drive.

ONLY if there's a hand-recount -- only if the official total is very close -- would anyone ever notice the discrepancy.

As long as the vote-counting software is proprietary, nothing else will save us.

[procon]

5. Hey, maybe it's a feature, not a bug? nt

[Amaryllis]

7. Ha! You got that right.

[triron]

8. IMO cyber invasion of vote registration databases are a much larger problem.