Reply #44: Not zapping, but tapping

[electropop]

In other words, yes it would simply be seen as a bad connection if you injected some noise signal or something as the data is transmitted. But in many cases the connections from voting machines to tabulators was insecure. Some were done of standard telephone lines, leaving the possibility of simply dialing in and mimicking the data stream of a tabulator, or hacking into the OS or code (it is believed that the code contains "back doors" for just such purposes). Some connections may have been over the internet(s), in which case the Windows operating system used in all the election equipment is one gigantic back door, easily hacked by every middle school script kiddie.