Can Ohio Voting Machines Be Hacked?

Ben Swann's Reality Check

Romney has ties to a company that owns voting machines in Ohio.

Voting machine provider Hart Intercivic will be counting the votes in various counties in the crucial swing states of Ohio and Colorado and elsewhere throughout the country come Nov. 6 — even though it has extensive corporate ties to the Mitt Romney camp.

Comments

[DailyBail]

Angst in Ohio about Bain, Romney donors links to voting machine company

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/10/23/angst-about-counting-the-votes-in-ohio/

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Romney-linked voting machine company to count votes in Ohio

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/23/romney_linked_voting_machine_company_to_count_votes_in_ohio/

[DailyBail]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Federal officials say that absentee ballots being sent to U.S. military serving in Afghanistan may have been burned in a plane crash.

http://news.yahoo.com/absentee-ballots-may-destroyed-crash-210240583--election.html

[Jack Lohman]

Hey, ALL voting machines can be hacked. Even paper ballots can be discarded. What can't be hacked are stacks of ballots, and the highest one wins. But we need strong oversight from both parties PLUS as two onlookers!

[S. Gompers]

In Ohio, we have had "technical difficulties" the last couple of elections with the wonderful electronic machines.

[S. Gompers]

Please read Project EVEREST for some interesting insight.

http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/upload/everest/00-SecretarysEVERESTExecutiveReport.pdf

All this in addition to the vote earlies, and vote oftens, and the "bus tours" from the graveyards...

If you google "electronic voting problems in Ohio" you will find info on the last couple of elections.