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Specifically, three towns will, and will hand-tally election results along side the open source software in verification. Should be interesting. Anyone who wants to challenge the result is welcome to hire a software expert to analyze the code and try to find problems that could be interpreted as vote flipping.

Now, this is not an electronic voting machine, this is a vote scanner or tabulator. People up there use paper ballots, which I think is the safe way to vote.

Pretty cool, IMO.

https://therecord.media/new-hampshire-set-to-pilot-voting-machines-that-use-software-everyone-can-see/

https://politics.slashdot.org/story/22/11/03/2155238/new-hampshire-set-to-pilot-voting-machines-that-use-open-source-software#comments

They replaced the mechanical pull-arm machines with mark/scan systems. The main issue involved people who incorrectly voted for multiple people in single races, or who did not correctly mark out a mistake. The big problem is that if this is not fixed for next year's presidential race, they estimate that the number of uncounted votes could easily be 100,000.

These are not Sequoia/Diebold electronic voting machines, but it is possible the scanners were made by one of them.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/40000-votes-uncounted-in-ny/all/1

They did it without opening the case or break the seals to prevent tampering, a USB stick was able to reprogram the machine.

(whoever is playing the game in the vid is pretty lousy at Pac Man, I could do better than that!)

http://www.cse.umich.edu/~jhalderm/pacman/

http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/08/19/1253234/Researchers-Reprogram-Voting-Machine-To-Run-Pac-man

You could vote by phone or computer, and people just didn't vote.

Three quotes of interest from TFA:

For the first time, Oahu voters had to use computers or the telephone to vote for their neighborhood board candidates and many people did not bother.

About 7,300 people voted this year, compared to 44,000 people who voted in the last neighborhood board race in 2007.

and The city cut its expenses in half by using computers and phone technology by Everyone Counts. It cost about $95,000.

and "This is the future for presidential elections, general elections, primary elections, all the way," Everyone Counts consultant Bob Watada said.

Watada is the former Campaign Spending Commission director.

"(It) gives access to a lot of people who haven't had the access, and you don't have the hanging chads, you don't have the miscounted absentee ballots, you don't have the ballots lost," he said.

How does this address people who don't have access? Anyone can request mail-in ballots, and there's always organizations who will transport you to the polls. And the polls are always ready to help disabled voters to vote.

So you have what appears to be a former gov't official goes to private industry and gets said gov't to spend $95K with his company implementing new voting technology that doesn't leave a voting trail, thus is questionable as to whether it would satisfy legal requirements for recounts. I can appreciate municipalities trying to save money, I work for one, but you have to be very careful trying to save money in offices such as the Clerks: elections, and trust in them, are just too important.

It would be very interesting to see what the full results were as cast by those 7,300 people to see how close the races were compared to previous elections.

http://www.kitv.com/politics/19573770/detail.html?treets=hon&tml=hon_9am&ts=T&tmi=hon_9am_1_02000105272009