Hopefully they'll try and rig the election but do so in such an incompetent manner that it all just falls apart on its own.

following the russian tradition, make your or admin too imcompetent to oppose you, but dont realize you need them to make your admin function properly.

Well, this and to exploit them. Like:

Step 1: exploit vulnerabilities.
Step 2: accuse opponent of exploiting them, lock them up.
Step 3: profit

Well that was...unexpected. Surely the more likely scenario is that they exploit the hack to change the results?

make him sit at the BBC deposition and televise it to say which part of the files he denied being in.

How do you know the software running on the voting machine you're about to vote on is the software that was audited?

You go get all the machines together, make sure all the software runs on the newest version and it's correct and it's configured properly with the candidates. When you've got to distribute them to the polling stations, they've got to be kept securely between audit and polling day. Your adversaries are foreign state actors who want to manipulate your elections.

And then at the end of the day you have to get the results off the machines. You have to trust that the machine gave you the correct numbers and then you have to get those numbers all together without anyone having the opportunity to manipulate them.

Usually at this point someone comes up with the idea of a paper backup so the machine prints like a receipt of who you voted for that you can put in a ballot box.

If you're doing that and then count all of the paper ballots to verify the machine count, why even bother with the machines? Just have people vote on a paper ballot with a pencil and count them by hand. The ways to attack paper ballot just don't scale. You might be able to manipulate a few votes in one polling station, but you'd need a massive operation to do it across the whole country.

Problem is we buy these things from the lowest bidder

Or, just use a pencil and paper. This a solution in search of a problem with the additional issue (or feature, depending on who you're talking to) of being able to undermine elections in a number of ways.

(Time taken to count is a shit rationale)

Answer: confidentiality of the vote

In theory you are right.

In practice you need an OS, visual software, and a way to read from it.

OS is probably Windows XP or whatever because reasons nobody can explain.

Software is shit because they take the cheapest one.

And to read it from you just put in a usb stick and can hack it with know window xp burn abilities.....

no, its mostly in republican controlled areas, states. and the machines are all owned by a gop-aligned company. its been well known these are rigged for the last 2 decades, but the msm will never report it though.

It's classic America. Have an overly complicated stupid system that doesn't work, and is inherently unsafe, but don't fix it because doing so would require some billionaire to lose a revenue stream.

This just in, many liberals are attempting to vote three times in coming election!