If Ohio was going to be hacked, and it didn't happen, thank DU.

[Stevepol]

13. If Germany can ban electronic vote counting, we have at least a little hope.

I was hopeful at the time that this 2009 ruling would have a strong effect in other countries, namely, here in the US. Here are a few lines from an article about the ruling:

"They reasoned that electronic voting is not verifiable because citizen votes are counted in secret. It is obscured a technology inaccessible to all but a very few initiates. Most importantly, the German high court noted, electronic voting machines don't allow citizens to "reliably examine, when the vote is cast, whether the vote has been recorded in an unadulterated manner" Mar. 3, 2009.

The written opinion effectively bars electronic voting in future elections based on the complexity of voting machines and the inability of voters to watch their vote being counted. This raises the bar of acceptability well above the meaningless solutions offered by "paper trails" for touch screen voting or the so-called "paper ballots" for computerized optical scan voting machines, the most popular form of voting in the United States.

Germany's 2009 Bundestag elections were conducted with hand counted paper ballots."

The reasoning of the justices would apply equally to elections in the US.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0910/S00187.htm