Why it’s really hard to hack into voting machines

By Kyle Feldscher

Published December 3, 2016 5:00am ET

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Why it’s really hard to hack into voting machines — New York City Board of Elections technician Hector Bosquez repairs a ballot-scanning machine at a polling station in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Nov. 8. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan) | Alexander F. Yuan

The voting recount underway in Wisconsin, and perhaps later in Pennsylvania and Michigan, is based on the claim that the machines used to tally votes in those states are vulnerable to hackers.

“Experts who have studied our voting system for years have concluded many of our voting machines are hackable,” claims the website for Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who initiated the recount.

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