Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been ruffling feathers lately by suggesting there could be massive fraud at the polls on Nov. 8. Local elections officials are among the many refuting Trump’s allegations and insist every voters’ ballot will count. … In theory, someone could try to tamper with elections well in advance of Election Day. They could try to change the state’s list of registered voters. Reid Magney of Wisconsin’s elections commission says people have called his office with questions. “Because in the news it’s been reported that elections databases in Arizona and Illinois were entered by hackers. Nothing like that has happened in Wisconsin,” he says. Magney says he’s confident the state’s voter registration database will remain secure. “We actually upgraded our system to the absolute latest technology. We’re also working with the Department of Homeland Security to conduct regular scans to make sure there have been no intrusions,” he says.
What about a person wishing to rig ballots and voting machines? Right now in the city of Milwaukee, they’re lined up inside a warehouse. Yet Milwaukee’s election commissioner Neil Albrecht says it would be virtually impossible to tinker with the machines or the ballots. “They’re held in a locked space until Election Day, but you also have to have a key to open the equipment. There are also numerous locked compartments within the equipment,” he says.
Albrecht says if someone were to find a way to unlock the machines, workers would know. “There are seals that cannot be compromised on those compartments, and then also just a continuous chain of custody where people are documenting who’s been in possession of these ballots,” he says.
On Election Day itself, poll workers keep just as close an eye on each ballot’s movements. Waukesha County Clerk Kathleen Novack says poll workers only hand ballots to voters with proper identification.
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