What gets my goat about all of this, is following the 2000 election (hanging chads) the state by state push to modernize election systems was full of fraud by e

What gets my goat about all of this, is following the 2000 election (hanging chads) the state by state push to modernize election systems was full of fraud by election companies and politicians. They lined the coffers of for-profit companies who demanded non-disclosures, proprietary software, were protected from ever having their systems audited while in place, and tons of those businesses went out of business. And all the computer science geeks told them so, in advance, that this would happen. And where we are. Those same politicians accused knowledgeable people of FUD. But it takes a uniquely stubborn person to think it's a good idea to buy voting machines that have at best a 10 year service life. That's not better than mechanical voting machines that lasted ~40 years or more. And what the hell are voting machines doing with WiFi and voter accessible USB ports? The sheer stupidity involved in this... Who cares if it takes three days to count paper voted for an election? The media probably helped push for these systems because they love selling all kinds of hype including that of election results for the now, now now political culture we have.