So machines are still sealed at the polling place? If so that'd be a good start but same shit really. What if they had a firmware which had a special counting m

So machines are still sealed at the polling place? If so that'd be a good start but same shit really. What if they had a firmware which had a special counting mode you could trigger with a special ballot? The only way to make sure it's partially secure is to audit the code and even with that you could miss stuff. Code for these things must be open. Plus a quick google search shows (facepalm) the following (there are many others like that): https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/online-vulnerable-experts-find-nearly-three-dozen-u-s-voting-n1112436 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/online-vulnerable... The three largest voting manufacturing companies — Election Systems &Software, Dominion Voting Systems and Hart InterCivic — have acknowledged they all put modems in some of their tabulators and scanners. The reason? So that unofficial election results can more quickly be relayed to the public. Those modems connect to cell phone networks, which, in turn, are connected to the internet. The largest manufacturer of voting machines, ES&S, told NBC News their systems are protected by firewalls and are not on the “public internet.” But both Skoglund and Andrew Appel, a Princeton computer science professor and expert on elections, said such firewalls can and have been breached.