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what's the failure point? then you work inside that

I know a guy who did this for a job for a company that produced food

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_sign

his entire job was to allow the company to push up as close to that line as possible without going over when checked randomly

saving them tens of millions a year




Depends on how many ballots you sample, but the number you could change would only matter in an extremely close election and in my state, if a vote is within 0.5%, it triggers an automatic recount. These systems have layers of auditing and validation to prevent these errors whether intentional or not.




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