Voting machines' design allows for fraud

According to research by Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai and his team, the type of voting machines used in much of the country are designed with features that are easily usable for election fraud:
  • Vote totals are stored as decimal numbers (e.g. 3.4) instead of whole numbers.
  • Machines support "weighted races" which can count some votes as a fraction of a vote, or as double votes, etc.
  • Machines should store images of the ballots they scan, but this can be (and has been) disabled, erasing an important audit trail.
  • Vote totals are stored in a database that is not protected—it can be easily changed by anyone with access to the machine.

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