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Re:A used voting machine from the 2016 election by felipemnoa on Friday July 20, 2018 @06:19PM (#17579447)
>>Of course, whoever hacks a vote counting machine can give any vote count they want, so they can set the margin however wide they want.

Exit polls give you a pretty good idea, within a margin of error, of who is winning. If somebody is winning by a large margin and you want to change that by hacking voting machines, it is very likely to be detected by the exit polls.

Re:A used voting machine from the 2016 election by wahern on Friday July 20, 2018 @09:42PM (#17580283)
I'm guessing you didn't vote in 2000.

In a real dispute exit polls are worthless.