# What about the hackable electronic voting machines?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-the-hackable-electronic-voting-machines/212396>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 10, 2003, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-the-hackable-electronic-voting-machines/212396 "2003-11-10T14:48:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-the-hackable-electronic-voting-machines/212396/1 "2003-11-10T14:48:55Z")

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Just about everyone (here, anyway) knows that the electronic voting machines are made by Republican companies. And that they guard their propriety software so carefully that no one outside the companies can examine it.

Comes voting time, no matter how well it goes for the Democratic Presidential (et al) candidates, if the GOP deems it necessary, the mfrs’ Hacks can change the voting results without leaving so much as a trace of their fraudulent activity.

My question is, does anybody know if the DNC is aware of this and of so, wtf are they doing about it?

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**Author:** ![herman\_and\_bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f1d935/32.png) [@herman\_and\_bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/herman_and_bill)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-the-hackable-electronic-voting-machines/212396/2 "2003-11-10T15:34:56Z")

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Nobody over here has heard about it and unless you can give a cite you are on the wrong board. Lets keep politics out of GQ.

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**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-the-hackable-electronic-voting-machines/212396/3 "2003-11-10T15:41:46Z")

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I thought it was a factual question, but okay. Maybe the mod will move it.

Can’t help wondering, though, where is “over here” that you haven’t heard about this matter.

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-the-hackable-electronic-voting-machines/212396/4 "2003-11-10T16:30:47Z")

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It’s a theoretical concern, but it’s hard to say how real the threat actually is.

I’m sure the DNC is aware of it, though.

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-about-the-hackable-electronic-voting-machines/212396/5 "2003-11-10T16:39:11Z")

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Maybe everybody knows that where you are, but this thread is bound to be a debate about whether it’s true or not. Feel free to restart the thread in the Great Debates forum.

bibliophage  
moderator GQ