Question for techies about electronic voting, relating to Wisconsin:

[Zorra]

Please, be gentle, I am profoundly technically challenged:-)

Is it possible to clone, and/or distribute votes tallied on a computer?

Could a county clerk say, in Waukesha County, send some votes for the candidate she wanted to win to another county clerk's system in Marathon County? And then some to another county clerks system in Crawford County, and some to a county clerks system in Menominee County? And so on, until she had distributed a significant enough number of votes to other counties and thereby insured a win for her candidate?

Then the county clerk posts the votes for her own county a little late, and for a missing vote total for a precinct in her county the next day?

Would this be possible without the county clerks in the other counties knowing?

Or, could/would the other county clerks have to open their systems to receive the votes from Waukesha?

I was just wondering if this was a possible way to commit voter fraud.

If this is possible, a dishonest, partisan county clerk could increase the overall vote total for the candidate she wanted to win and never get caught...unless, of course, some clueless technical idiot on a political forum got real lucky and figured out what she was doing.

[Scuba]

1. Possible, yes. Probable, no. There are easier ways to rig the results. n/t

[brooklynite]

2. This is an irrelevant question...

Because Wisconsin doesn't have electronic voting. It has paper ballot voting with an electronic OCR scanner. When the inevitable recount occurred, the paper ballots would be seen to not match the electronic count.

[Zorra]

3. No, not irrelevant. County clerk in Waukesha apparently had the votes saved on her personal

computer.

[brooklynite]

4. Not my point

It doesn't matter how devious the clerk was; the adjusted votes wouldn't survey a hand recount of the paper ballots.

[Zorra]

5. What exactly does "adjusted votes wouldn't survey a hand recount of paper ballots" mean?

I don't understand.

How can votes survey something?

Definitions of survey:

1. To examine or look at comprehensively.
2. To inspect carefully; scrutinize: "Two women were surveying the other people on the platform" (Thomas Wolfe). See Synonyms at see1.
3. To determine the boundaries, area, or elevations of (land or structures on the earth's surface) by means of measuring angles and distances, using the techniques of geometry and trigonometry.
4. Chiefly British To inspect and determine the structural condition of (a building).
5. To conduct a statistical survey on.
6. To range one's gaze leisurely over.

[brooklynite]

8. sorry, meant "survive"

[elocs]

6. Anything on the computer would have to match the physical, recountable paper ballots. n/t

[Zorra]

7. No, I understand this about Nickolaus' computer.

None of these responses so far even remotely answers my original question except for the first response.

Apparently I either did not word the OP clearly enough.