You have no idea whatsoever how these systems are built. You don't know because you haven't seen the software (or hardware) for them. You haven't because (I as

You have no idea whatsoever how these systems are built. You don't know because you haven't seen the software (or hardware) for them. You haven't because (I assume this part) you weren't one of the state inspectors, and what many (most?) of the manufacturers have done is to insist that no one ELSE be allowed to view the details since it's a "trade secret". So maybe there is excellent logging like you describe. And maybe there isn't. We DO know that there have been occasional incidents of invalid vote reporting by the machines (such as [1] or [2]) that were not caught by such log systems. [1] http://www.networkworld.com/article/2275174/lan-wan/e-voting-vendor--programming-errors-caused-dropped-votes.html http://www.networkworld.com/article/2275174/lan-wan/e-voting... [2] http://www.hackingdemocracy.com/ http://www.hackingdemocracy.com/