http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/americas-voting-machines-are-fcked-the-daily-show-examines-a-major-threat-to-our-election-process/
A "Daily Show” correspondent was shocked to learn just how half-assed and slapped-together the American voting system actually is.
Ronny Chieng, a native of Malaysia, spoke with elections officials and experts about the voting process, and found that many states use out-of-date and unreliable equipment that cause confusion, delays and a potential for rigged elections.
"One machine would go and crash. They'd bring it back up. Another one would crash," said Edgardo Cortes, the state's elections commissioner. "Starting in the early afternoon, they brought in a piece of replacement equipment that experienced the same issues when they set it up in the precinct."
Cortes added that elections workers had a theory about what had caused the problem.
"There was some interference," he said, "potentially from a wireless signal from an election officer [who] was streaming music on their phone."
When state auditors investigated, though, they didn't find that particular problem. Instead, they found something more disturbing. While using their smartphones, they were able to connect to the voting machines' wireless network, which is used to tally votes.
Other state investigators easily guessed the system's passwords — in one case, it was "abcde" — and were then able to change the vote counts remotely without detection.
Jeremy Epstein is co-founder of Virginia Verified Voting and one of many computer experts who had warned about the security flaws. He's not at all surprised by the state's findings. He said there's no evidence that anyone has ever tampered with Virginia's voting machines, but if they had, there's no way to tell.
no evidence but if there were no one would know how insightful is that???? nothing gets done because those who could won't do anything because these faults benefit a more nefarious deceptive plan to stack the odds in their favor or cheat. we know the usual suspects if it were the Dems doing it don't you think that we would be controlling both houses and gerrymandering in our favor not republicans???????
this time i find the funny not amusing make some noise my friends the longer we stand by the longer we are left standing by while our voices are silently stolen and stifled not the American way or is it now????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
