Reply #90: OPTICAL SCANS ARE NOT SECURE!!!!!!

[garybeck]

Folks, it's so simple.

When you vote on a DRE, you touch a screen. The machine secretly counts your vote.

When you vote on a opscan, you shove your ballot into the scanner. The machine secretly counts your vote.

THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE. It could literally be the exact same software code on both machines.

The only difference is that with the opscan, there's a stack of ballots that COULD be checked against the machine count. Out of the millions of opscan ballots that have been used in the last 8 years, how many have been checked? I'd say the number is close to zero. So unless they start checking the paper ballots against the machine count. there is NO DIFFERENCE between DREs and OPSCAN.