But you cannot hack a voting machine unless crooks have illegally connected the voting machine to the internet first. What I want to know, is who was the first person who allowed voting machines to have internet capabilities, and why were they not stopped from doing something so incredibly stupid (wicked in this case)?

Let's get the media to tell us the story about the very first internet capable voting machine, and all the "who; what; when; where; why's" for that little publicly unknown story.