>>12037838 (PB)
Three questions:
1) When did they come under lock and key?
2) Who is holding the key?
3) Who had access to them before this?
If it takes two minutes to flash a machine, how many machines could 10 people flash at once. A) about 40, because you insert the media and start a batch file / script (5-15 seconds) and then move to the next machine.
At that rate, a room of 100 voting machines could be given whatever new code was thought to result in the lowest jail sentence in under 20 minutes.
"Way back when" a co-worker and I changed the operating system on 60 computers in just about an hour. Fdisk new OS > new apps.
Flashing a voting machine would be MUCH quicker.
If the OS and apps were running off the USB key (ala TAILS or other live version of Linux), the changeover is as simple as exchanging one USB key for the other.
So, what does the chain of custody look like. Does it even exist?