I can't stand Trump any more than the next person. Felt relieved as everyone when media announced he lost (even if I also can't stand Biden).

The impulse to assume we know machines could never be hacked and hand cast, hand counted ballots aren't far more secure is disappointing. https://twitter.com/a_picazo/status/1328833335288881154
These articles are a dime a dozen. Especially after people were disappointed with HRC's loss in 2016. The election machine industry in the US has been actively hostile, until a few companies very recently, to real e-security. https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/344488-hackers-break-into-voting-machines-in-minutes-at-hacking-competition
Hackers breach dozens of voting machines brought to conference

LAS VEGAS — One of the nation’s largest cybersecurity conferences is inviting attendees to get hands-on experience hacking a slew of voting machines, demonstrating to researchers how easy the process

https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/344488-hackers-break-into-voting-machines-in-minutes-at-hacking-competition
The answer of the elections official in that article, by the way, first of all turns out to be quite false. Many state/county voting machines connect to the internet, even when officials think or say they do not. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/online-vulnerable-experts-find-nearly-three-dozen-u-s-voting-n1112436
Experts find more than 30 U.S. voting systems connected to internet

A team of election security experts used a “Google for servers” to challenge claims that voting machines do not connect to the internet and found some did.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/online-vulnerable-experts-find-nearly-three-dozen-u-s-voting-n1112436
Secondly, even if physical voting machines are properly air gapped (rare), there are so many ways such elections systems can otherwise be hacked or are connected. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/magazine/the-myth-of-the-hacker-proof-voting-machine.html
The Myth of the Hacker-Proof Voting Machine (Published 2018)

Election officials have insisted that machines can’t be remotely compromised because they’re not “connected to the internet.” But security experts point out crucial ways in which they are.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/magazine/the-myth-of-the-hacker-proof-voting-machine.html
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