How would it be possible to "hack" elections?

Question

Electronic Voting Machines (or EVMs) do not have access to the World Wide Web or WiFi or Bluetooth. They have their own separate network connected with cables in order to prevent exactly that (just like ATMs).

So the only way to hack an EVM would be to gain direct physical access to it. Which would be very difficult if not outright impossible, since they are under heavy security and 24 hour CCTV surveillance. Not to mention that it would be impossible to hack the device during the 2-5 minutes that you are in the booth.

I am no Trump supporter, i think the man is an idiot. But this whole election hacking theory seems to much like Holywood/Mission Impossible to me.

Answer 1

Have some instructions. How to hack a machine in 7 minutes. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/2016-elections-russia-hack-how-to-hack-an-election-in-seven-minutes-214144



Plan B would be to hack the machines which are connected to systems with pcAnywhere installed. The central systems can distribute software to all the voting machines in a county. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mb4ezy/top-voting-machine-vendor-admits-it-installed-remote-access-software-on-systems-sold-to-states

Answer 2

You wouldn't have to hack any voting machines. You could just hack regular home computers, which are connected to the Internet, or news websites, or Facebook, and post lots of lies to trick voters into voting for someone whom they would oppose normally.

Answer 3

it probably isnt possible

Answer 4

They would have had to pay off every County Election Supervisor, the county clerks, in every county, in every state, to get access to the ballots, and the ballot readers. Or, even if they could do that for certain key states, you are looking at such fraud on an epic and massive scale to rival elections in a 3rd world banana republic. It would have been easier to stuff ballot boxes, or send in illegal voters to vote multiple times. The fraud would have been found out like an A Bomb going off in Times Square.





Yeah, obviously it didn't happen, and all this noise is to deflect attention from, you know who and what.

Answer 5

You don't hack the machine, you hack the idiot pushing the button.

Answer 6

Ok

Answer 7

The only time it's possible is when you're trying to manipulate public opinion

Answer 8

No one hack the elections. Someone hacked the DNC server, found out that the DNC rigged the primaries and put out the emails that proved it.



Of course, the leftists don't care about the DNC rigging the primaries or using money raised for Bernie to promote Hillary. They want to pretend the whole thing is Trump's fault.

Answer 9

i dunno.



after the election the democrats demanded recounts, but then Trump was gaining votes so they called it off.



actually the fact that Trump was gaining votes in recounts tells me that democrats were throwing Trump votes in the garbage at 1st.

Answer 10

ask the NRA

Answer 11

“Since early 2014, Russian intelligence has researched US electoral processes and related technology and equipment,” the U.S. intelligence community said in its initial assessment of Russian activities before the elections. Then, according to multiple accounts of Russian activity to interfere with the 2016 vote, they put that knowledge to use.



“The Kremlin’s campaign aimed at the US election featured disclosures of data obtained through Russian cyber operations; intrusions into US state and local electoral boards; and overt propaganda,” according to the intelligence agencies’ assessment, which Trump himself has said he backs.



The FBI went public about the threat roughly two months before the 2016 election, issuing a nationwide warning about possible attempts to hack state election offices after intruders hacked voter registration databases in Illinois and Arizona. But it wasn’t until January 2017 that the government blamed Russian operatives for those attacks and accused the Kremlin of targeting 21 states’ election systems.

Answer 12

Russian cyborgs!