Did Anonymous really Save-the-Vote in Ohio? .... REALLY???

[JohnnyRingo]

128. I guess that's true that no one hand counts each vote on election day

...but those rolls are stored at the county board of elections right now, and if there's a challenge in court, they can be manually counted vote by vote. Understand, there are hundreds of millions of dollars in this contract for Diebold, and you have to ask yourself if they'd compromise that contract (and their reputation in future elections) to get Mitt Romney and Joe The Plumber elected. I believe their lucrative contract with multiple states (and their reputation in all their security products) is worth much more than a proposed 20% tax cut. How could the CEO of Diebold sleep at night knowing that paper trail is sitting there like a ticking time bomb waiting to throw the company into bankruptcy?

If someone outside Diebold put their own software override in, it also likely could be determined who went through thousands of machines and changed the code. Less than a handful of people in Ohio have access to every one of our Diebold machines in every county. Remember, there's no internet connection on the Diebold machines as far as I know. We don't hook them up to a network at the polls, and there's no log on when we set them up.

Getting ahead of you a little, I have to mention that if the machine manufacturer (or someone else) wanted to, they could have the machine flip every fourth Obama vote and hope that particular voter isn't watching the machine as it prints out their vote, but all it would take would be a couple hundred astute voters reporting an incorrect vote for the election to be thrown into chaos, resulting in a a call to Diebold to pick up their machines while Ohio finds another supplier.

In the end, if someone is too cynical to trust the paper trail that is produced by these machines ,and laboriosly verified by the poll workers and BOE, how can they trust anyone to hand count the ballots? There could always be cause for suspicion that one party is cheating the manual count.