If it means anything, that question has occurred to me, too. I think it would be pretty easy to snoop or hack US voting machines, except that the storage and care of those machines is so decentralized.
The fact that storage/maintenance is decentralized makes manipulation easier, in fact. For example, take voting machines stored in a school's locker room. Show the low-paid, possibly immigrant, janitor a FBI badge and he'll instantly let you in the room with the machines.
Now, imagine big, centralized storage facilities with proper security. A trained guard would most likely not simply some FBI agent in without a warrant.
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If it means anything, that question has occurred to me, too. I think it would be pretty easy to snoop or hack US voting machines, except that the storage and care of those machines is so decentralized.
The fact that storage/maintenance is decentralized makes manipulation easier, in fact. For example, take voting machines stored in a school's locker room. Show the low-paid, possibly immigrant, janitor a FBI badge and he'll instantly let you in the room with the machines.
Now, imagine big, centralized storage facilities with proper security. A trained guard would most likely not simply some FBI agent in without a warrant.
Not a janitor or trained guard, but a manager would with an NSL.