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There is NO electronic voting machine that is safe from hacking. The ONLY electronic machines that are safe in any way are machines that only count a physical vote, and only with humans at least verifying the results by hand. Modifying an electronic voting machine, even a counting one, to steal elections is very easy for even a single moderately skilled programmer (or for some counting ones, a single engineer).To have actual verifiable elections:1) any citizens can inspect the setup before election starts2) physical votes in a box3) can watch votes be tallied after polls close, *at your polling location*, with separate published totals for each polling place; you can verify in the final list that your polling location totals are correct and so can other people for their polls.If the votes are moved to a central location to count, then the election can be stolen. If you can't verify the totals include correct numbers from your poll location then the election can be stolen. If there are mechanical counters where you can't physically see each vote on paper and verify the count, then the election can be stolen. As an American citizen, you can't verify the vote at your polls even when computers are not involved... which means if our elections are stolen there's no way for us to know about it.

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