> Even with electronic voting machines it is rare to get enough privacy to hide attempting to tamper with the back of the machine like this article discusses.

> Even with electronic voting machines it is rare to get enough privacy to hide attempting to tamper with the back of the machine like this article discusses. An electronic voting machine could be tampered with well ahead of voting day. Verification hashes and the like are only aggregates that are open to trickery on the way to the humans checking them, the ground truth is impossible for a human to process. We cannot sense the state of a computer without its help. In contrast to this, the initial emptiness of a physical ballot box is very much in the realm of human senses, it's perfectly safe to leave them unattended until voting starts.