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In a recent video, a Coffee County elections supervisor revealed how voting machine operators can easily manipulate votes by adding to scanned ballots. 

The video shows the supervisor manipulating software. 

“The Dominion voting machines that Georgia and several other states use are unsecure and open to manipulation during the counting process. This second of two videos shows the weaknesses of the system and the ways in which an unscrupulous election official may alter ballots with virtually no chance of being caught,” the video caption reads.

Dominion CEO John Poulos earlier today said he is willing to testify in Michigan regarding the voting machines. 

The machines have been noted to be prone to several issues including flipping votes to the wrong candidate. 

The video backs up statements made by a former election chief in Illinois. 

In that case, Champaign County Recorder of Deeds Mark Shelden, who oversaw elections for 14 years as county clerk, said he and a partisan poll watcher had to manually change voter data to accurately record votes, but they could have easily manipulated the vote otherwise. 

“All of the systems are like virtually any kind of computer system out there,” Shelden said. “It has a back door for users to go in and make changes to the data outside of the normal pattern, the normal way the data comes in.”

Voting systems engineers have long been more worried about the vulnerability of voting systems to partisan election workers. 

An engineer successfully hacked a voting system in 2005 to show how results could easily be swayed in an undetected manner. 

Countless other examples exist. 

Jim Bleck, the designer of the first computer voting system in the '80s, said in the end all voting systems are only as good as their operators. 

“When you think about an election and the mischief that can happen, you realize that you need to think through all the logistics,” he said.