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They have no way to connect the voting machine to the internet. The totals are printed out at the closing of the polls. We make 4 copies. One is posted on the door for anyone to see. One goes to the district along with the ballots and the chip or card that recorded the voting process. One stays in the machine and goes with the machine I am not sure where. One copy of the actual printed out votes is in an envelope along with other information from the polls I have sworn to keep for 5 years just incase everything else fails. I know for sure that we hand deliver the results of the polls to the district. Nothing is put on or connected to the internet. What happens above the district level I am not privy to.Therein lies the problem.
The voting machines are not DIRECTLY connected to the Internet, but they are connected to the State-wide government network. As are other servers, which are not directly connected to any of the voting machines, but are connected to the Internet. Since those voting machines are not on a completely separate and isolated network, but rather share the same State-wide network as other State servers with Internet access, it makes accessing those voting machines via the Internet a possibility.