Reply #37: Only hacked in one place [View All]

If all the ballots for the county are only counted at one sight, the county BOE, then that is the only place manipulation needs to occur.

You mention "local" tabulator. Are you referring to the one at the county BOE? I would assume the results are tallied there and sent to the state to aggregate all the counties. So I see only two tabulators: one at the county level (for card reading) and the other at the state level (for summing). The central tabulator at the state level reads the finished, not raw, data from the counties. Therefore there is no need to manipulate upstream. Thus the "local" tabulator, the one connected to the card reader and programmed to interpret its results, is the only place one would need to hack.

Reading the raw output from the card readers, left unprocessed by TRIAD, would surely indicate whether any hanky-panky took place in the tabulation software. Of course, a hand recount of the entire county would also settle matters.


I am not accusing fraud either. I'm just trying to understand the architecture and data design to discover potential areas where fraud could occur. I think the key here is to determine whether TRIAD knew beforehand which precincts would be re-counted.