Reply #18: Nope. No visibility of the code is necessary to pull this off. [View All]

[Bill Bored]

It's more a question of testing and auditing the user-level interface and configuration or perhaps a software redesign to make this sort of change impossible, or at least difficult. (Of course for a real programmer or hacker, none of this is difficult.) I'm just suggesting that it doesn't even require that level of expertise. I mean why make it difficult to perpetrate election fraud??? If we understand this correctly, anyone who can use a word processor can do it. And people with lesser skills may be easier to let's say...recruit.

Holt would help because it has random audits and of course the VVPAR, which is better than not being able to audit at all.

Note that Op Scans can probably be hacked the same way, so VVPBs wouldn't help either unless they too are audited.