Vote tampering in U.S. elections?

Tests around the country by computer science and computer security experts keep confirming that many electronic voting machines (EVMs) are easy to tamper with. Recently a major study of electronic voting machines from the respected Brennan Center for Justice confirmed the necessity of a paper trail. Voting machines can be altered by replacing memory cards, attaching cables for remote access, or internet or wireless access. Hackers have easily altered data in test situations. Many states have had problems that look suspiciously like vote tampering. Sixty-five percent of all states now require paper trails for all voting machines. Now that a major voting machine company has been purchased by a Venezuelan company hopefully more Americans across the political spectrum will realize that the only way for all of us to be secure in the integrity of our elections is to require a paper trail as a backup.

RFK Jr. has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against Diebold, controversial manufacturer of electronic voting machines, alleging fraud when Diebold represented its machines as unhackable. Numerous tests have proved the multiple ways in which Diebold machines can be accessed and votes tampered with, all without detection. The lawsuit alleges that Diebold knowingly misrepresented its equipment. From the beginning of their entry into the electronic voting market, the use of Diebold EVMs have been surrounded by a cloud of allegations of problems linking them to voting fraud. As Kennedy points out, “The single greatest threat to our democracy is the insecurity of our voting system. Whoever controls the voting machines can control who wins the votes.”