There are two kinds of hackers: the malicious hackers who actually steal, destroy or alter data, and the nuisance hackers who just show off that they could.
The public has become justifiably afraid that malicious hackers of voting machines will intentionally flip elections from deserving candidates to undeserving ones.
But, I have two questions:
1) What happens if malicious hackers flip an election to Mickey Mouse?
2) What happens if nuisance hackers keep the vote tallies for legitimate candidates intact, but add Mickey Mouse and give him 1,000,000 votes?