Are the voting machines secure?

JesusFollowerForever said:

The point I want to make here is that we do not need these machines, they can be flawed, tampered with and the results can be modified with the people either servicing these machines or collecting the results, there are many ways to trick an election with these expensive stupid, internet connected useless machine.,

a paper ballot is all that is needed. the staff is on the premises anyways why not just count like before... Since these systems were implemented we cannot trust the election results anymore especially like this year where the dems and reps are almost equal in the polls. so far the reps seem to be a bit ahead but anything can happen if people pull the strings behind the curtains.

In the United States, most electronic voting machines are not connected to the internet during the voting process. This is a security measure designed to prevent hacking and ensure the integrity of the election. BUT, there can be some exceptions, such as certain systems used for reporting results or transmitting data after the polls close. Overall, the prevailing approach is to keep voting machines isolated from the internet to minimize risks. but the fact remains that they transmit the result through internet connections.........

Just my paranoid opinion.

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These voting machines, as far as I know, are just ballot marking machines. your vote is confirmed by you prior to printing, which you can verify again before turning the paper in for counting. No reason to be paranoid.

Voters get paper receipts and can check them before putting them in the ballot box.
In close elections, recounts are done by hand.
Hand counts are lengthy, expensive. And subject to human error--or sabotage.

Almost all jurisdictions have some form of paper ballot or receipt. Louisiana is the biggest outlier.

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Voting Has Never Been More Secure Than It Is Right Now​

Efficient machines, paper ballots and human checks make the U.S. voting system robust

One reason for that confidence is the adoption of voting technology that combines machine efficiency with the verifiability of a paper trail. This is the result of a shift that began two decades ago, after system jams and punch-card fragments—Florida’s infamous “hanging chads”—led to a fiasco that left the 2000 election results unclear for five weeks. Congress’s response, the 2002 Help America Vote Act, phased out the use of punch-card ballots and lever machines in federal elections. Most Americans now vote with optical scanners, which process marked selections on paper sheets. In the 2020 presidential election, Georgia’s polling sites used hand-fed optical scanners; an audit of the nearly five million votes cast in the state, the largest hand count of ballots in recent U.S. history, confirmed that President Joe Biden won. County error rates were 0.73 percent or less, and most had no change in their tallies at all.

“For a host of reasons, the potential vulnerability of individual voting machines doesn't translate into systemic vulnerability,” says political scientist Mark Lindeman, policy and strategy director at Verified Voting, a nonprofit group that tracks election systems across the country. “Hackers don’t get to go one-on-one with voting machines. There’s a whole set of procedural safeguards to protect them.” Physical ballots add trustworthiness to the system, too, because they are verifiable, auditable and recountable. Scientific Americanspoke with Lindeman about why Americans, despite experiencing so much voting agita, in fact live in a golden age for casting ballots.