I cannot imagine a software more simple than that required to add up a vote tally. If it has any capability beyond that...it is fraud on its very face.
Also, I know we are a “global economy”, but it should be illegal as hell to use foreign built voting machines.
You are so correct. One of the software system I developed had 100,000+ lines of code. It designed an entire drive train of a machine with 500-750 HP motor, creating a force of upto 3000 tons with 20-30 cycles per minute. Adding votes for a dozen or so candidates should require no more than 50 lines of code, at the most. This is obviously malicious progam code.
Yeah, think about it, how accurate are those Atms as they dole out money. Incredibly accurate and probably right 99.99999 percent of the time. Counting a vote is nothing for the machine unless it is tinkered with.