GOP votes to end only fed agency that ensures voting machines can't be hacked

[Benton]

(02-07-2017, 09:53 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Seems a bit silly to have a whole permanent group to do a job every few years.

Better question is, why are any of these machines online to begin with? Set them up in a polling station with LAN, have them feed the results to a detachable HD. When the polling is done, have a armored truck or something drive it to a centralized location in the state. The state then takes all those HDs, loads them into their LAN that's also not connected to the internet and compiles them into the State's results.

Oh look, 100% unhackable election because you are never connected to the internet and it took me 5 minutes to think it up, not the 16 years this group has been around. A group like that would have never gave you an unhackable election though, because then they would have been out a job.

(02-08-2017, 11:20 AM)michaelsean Wrote: Someone already thought of it because voting machines are not connected to the internet.

I can't speak for every state, but michaelsean is correct, at least for Kentucky.

I've covered every state election for nearly 20 years now, and it's always a long slow process. Pollsters close when they can (sometime after 6), and at least two collect the info printed out by the machine. They also bring a removable disc. That's taken to the election officer's location where they make sure the two sets of numbers match.If it's all good, they enter that into an online database. But the machine itself is never connected, and as soon as polls close, it's shut down so that if there was a quesiton of tampering, it's ready to be inspected.