Not in my precinct. We vote on a machine which prints onto a paper card with the record of our vote. Then we walk the card over to another machine and insert the card. That machine records the votes from the cards onto a cassette. Those cassettes are hand delivered to a counting area. No internet is involved in the process as far as I can tell. Also all the election workers are Republicans.
Cassette is my word for it. I don't know what they actually call them that's just what they remind me of. The machines I saw only had electrical wires to outlets. Now they may have a wi-fi system but I doubt the volunteer fire department where I vote lets them use their wi-fi and if so that's easy enough to check for any skullduggery. So that would mean they needed cell connections which rules out the internet.
USB storage on the machine that talley the ballots, the stick is removed and transported to the election administrator. Our pollbooks are connected to the internet via a portable wifi device.
Not in my precinct. We vote on a machine which prints onto a paper card with the record of our vote. Then we walk the card over to another machine and insert the card. That machine records the votes from the cards onto a cassette. Those cassettes are hand delivered to a counting area. No internet is involved in the process as far as I can tell. Also all the election workers are Republicans.
All they have to do is program the machine that records the votes. And who the hell uses cassettes now days?
Cassette is my word for it. I don't know what they actually call them that's just what they remind me of. The machines I saw only had electrical wires to outlets. Now they may have a wi-fi system but I doubt the volunteer fire department where I vote lets them use their wi-fi and if so that's easy enough to check for any skullduggery. So that would mean they needed cell connections which rules out the internet.
If you have a smart phone you can look for Wi-Fi, it will show any near your phone.
Hidden SSIDs are what you'd want to look for. I think there are apps that can detect them. 100% sure tho
USB storage on the machine that talley the ballots, the stick is removed and transported to the election administrator. Our pollbooks are connected to the internet via a portable wifi device.
For the right price, the election workers in your precinct could end up helping the right person cheat.
Seems like a pretty risky way to change a single vote.