All electronic systems are hackable and polling volunteers are not trained to spot suspicious activity with electronic systems or how to safeguard them. Additionally, any electronic system for voting is eventually going to be connected to a network. The old way, hand counting votes and calling it in, is far less "hackable" and requires a lot more work to falsify. Additionally, there is always a paper trail with a physical paper system. An electronic trail needs to be programmed, tested, implemented, looked at and is vulnerable to the same hacking techniques used to swap votes.
Give me a paper system any day. It's one of the few things I think absolutely should never be electronic.
Correct. Around me, poll workers training is taught by off-duty ____ getting a weekend paycheck to read a script. Nothing else.
There is a list of duties for workers (Judge, Maj. and Min. Inspectors) which is: Machine set-up, basic operation of Dem/Rep button, write-in option, printing results after the polls close, and closing the machine. None of which are actually demonstrated. The main takeaway is the phone number for any questions on Election Day, "You'll be fine."
Not exactly, Devin. There are usually two machines sitting off to one side, ignored. Unless those things spew out a paper record; I haven't checked.