Can someone please explain? How does real-time access to voting machines change anything at scale?
Yes, they use electronic networks to inflate voter roles in advance. But to change tallies? Doesn't make sense.
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Here is a demo of one system.
Here is a trial in which it is explained how a central machine could flip thousands of votes. This would be my preferred method! Imagine you had a central machine that collected vote totals from several others. All that central machine has to do is to total the votes and assign the biggest total to the person you choose.
Example: Machine #1: Trump-10 & Hillary 2 Machine #2: Trump-9 & Hillary 7 Machine #3: Trump-11 & Hillary 12 Machine #4: Trump-7 & Hillary 4
Totals: Trump-37 & Hillary-25
Central machine reports result as Trump-25 & Hillary-37
Total votes are correct. No chance of having more votes than voters. Any recount would come out right. You could re-submit and totals to the central machine and the result would be the same. Very difficult to detect unless you manually take the individual machine totals and do the sums yourself. However, the individual machines could also flip the votes on the way to being aggregated.
One clever ploy they actually used would catch people who voted all Republican. They had Trump on the ballot as a RepubIican and not as a Republican so Trump would not receive a vote. Maybe you can't see the difference but a computer can. One "RepubIican" has an upper case "I" (eye) in it and not a lower case "L" (ell). Crafty or what?
Another plan: When vote totals are transferred to a central machine a USB stick can be used. You could hide all kinds of stuff on there incluiding programs to change vote totals. When you inserted the drive into a machine it could run that program first. After the event people would concentrate on the computers and overlook the USB drives - which would be easy to "lose" anyway.
You should never trust a computer!
Recounts also count who was voted for, not just total number. That's why recounts in Maricopa, Fulton and elsewhere confirmed vote totals for Trump and Biden. The problem was that hundreds of thousands of those counted ballots were fraudulent (phantom voters, out-of-state, etc.).
I think one problem with re-counts is that they do not always re-count the individual ballots but the stacks or boxes they put the previously counted ballots in because there was a case I heard of that had Hillary beating Trump by a huge margin according to the box label but when opened up most of the Hillary votes seemed to be missing!