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by aylons 4719 days ago
> It's true, our eletronic ballot prints the report but there is no way to check if the sum of digital records are the same as the printed reports

Yes, there is: you can check the electronic records online and compare it against the printed reports.

The other allegations are surely important to the voting transparency discussion, but are not related to the allegations on the OP.

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The problem is, if you vote for candidate X, there's no way of checking if your vote was really computed or tampered with by the machine. The report will print something like 'candidate X = so many votes', but beyond that you can't know if that number was altered. If you had individual printouts on a ballot along with the electronic vote, you could have the ballot counted, and know. What if some wacko starts claiming he accessed 50 voting machines and altered to switch 20% of votes for cadidate X into votes for candidate Y, as the votes are being cast? How do you check?
This is part of the "other allegations". I'm not discussing them.

The allegation in the OP has nothing to do with this - he says he can change the results AFTER the ballots have printed the results.