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Don't call this things "voting machines", call them what they primarily are: computers. The word machine implies predictability and being built for one purpose only. Computers are not predictable and are furthermore designed to solve any problem, including committing election fraud.
> The word machine implies predictability [...]. Computers are not predictable [...] First of all, computers can be mechanical - the first computers have been [0]. Furthermore, computers are predictable. If a CPU would not be predictable, how would you program it? If you write a program, you assume that your computer is predictable and that your instructions will be carried out. (If that assumption is not met, a faul…
The difference is that a computer can emulate any machine, and it might not be emulating the one you think it's emulating.