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When I volunteered for a local Delaware State House seat primary candidate, I was literally ALLOWED to watch them tally the votes at our particular voting station.
The machines printed out the totals. No internet. Nothing. There were literally 10 people in the room watching everything that was done. At our locations, we were literally talking about only hundreds of votes. The lady I was supporting lost in the primary something like 120 votes to 85 votes (or something like that).
There are only a couple ways I can think of voting fraud and there is NO WAY for a foreign entity to do it.
The only way is when you are in a district that is like 90% on one side already. Everyone voting wants candidate A, everyone working wants candidate A.
You can cheat by just adding votes for people that didn't show up. You close the "real" polls maybe 15 minutes early and the workers conspire to add 50-100 votes really quick at the end for who they want. Or they vote early or when voting is quiet and the place is empty. They just randomly, throughout the day, vote for people they know never will show up. Many of these poll workers work the same polling stations for decades. They know names of people that don't show. They are neighbors. They know people who passed away. Et. al.
Another way, which is more dangerous, is to "call in" a different result but that is very risky because any recount will expose the error. Again, almost all the votes are tallied at the voting location then called in via phone to a master location which then adds them up. There is very good paper trail for votes from the machine (but not paper for each individual vote).
The idea a foreign country can change votes on election day or "hack" into our voting counts is absurd. Literally science fiction.
