Well, they didn’t use those exact words. But that’s the gist.
The following should horrify any American who gives a damn about any remnant of actual democracy.
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office,
the investigative arm of Congress charged with examining what the hell
is actually going on with our tax dollars, has issued a 107-page report confirming, among much else:
encrypt cast ballots or system audit logs, thus making it possible to
alter them without detection.
It is easy to alter a file defining how a ballot appears, making it
possible for someone to vote for one candidate and actually be recorded
as voting for an entirely different candidate.
Falsifying election results [was possible] without leaving any evidence of such an action by using altered memory cards.
Access to the voting network was easily compromised because not all
digital recording electronic voting systems (DREs) had supervisory
functions password-protected, so access to one machine provided access
to the whole network.
Supervisory across to the voting network was also compromised by
repeated use of the same user IDs combined with easily guessed
passwords.
The locks protecting access to the system were easily picked and keys were simple to copy.
The above is from this Kos post by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI). There’s more. Go read.
While the report and Rep. Conyers are careful not to call any
particular election into question (cough cough OHIO cough), it is
absolutely clear that the use of these machines must end.