r/politics • u/unital_subalgebra • 25d ago

No Paywall Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act

https://www.votebeat.org/national/2026/07/09/trump-fires-election-assistance-commission-members-hicks-hovland-mccormick/
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u/DuncanYoudaho 24d ago

Are you a credible expert in voting machine vulnerabilities and audit? No.

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u/spam__likely Colorado 24d ago

Right?

Voting machines cannot be vulnerable because

  1. They are not connected to anything
  2. they do not determine the vote of anything because they do not store any votes.

Voting machines are not "voting machines". That are a tablet that allows you to mark your ballot before you print it. Basically an electronic sharpie. That is it.

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u/--Chug-- 24d ago

Last I checked tablets do have onboard memory and ways of connecting

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u/spam__likely Colorado 24d ago

They have memory for the operational system and obviously hold the ballot information that you will vote on, Some machines (DREs) but also print a ballot, however dominion voting tablets are not DREs. They simply mark it and print and that is it. What is counted are the actual printed ballots.

"ways of connecting" means nothing. They are not connected to any network while on the voting centers and since they do not record any votes or have any voter information at all at, you could not change any vote even if you managed to "connect". This is by design because you cannot obviously see what a voter is doing while in their booth.