More on election machine hearing story!

• EXTRA! Congratulations on staying to the very end of the hearing.
• A researcher from Princeton University made a last-minute presentation at the hearing, showing this video. The Raging Grannies were so enraged by the clear demonstration that the voting machines can be "hacked" with malicious software that, at the end of the meeting, they took a machine out to the City Hall lawn and destroyed it with an axe and sledgehammers.
• You hear a counter-protestor accuse the group of theft and damaging city property, so you ask one of the "Grannies" where they got the machine, and she says "We bought it in advance of the meeting. It's not city property. It's not stolen." You ask her name, and she says "Just call me 'Alice Granny.'"
• (A police officer and a city voting official confirm that the machine was an old model and did not belong to the city. The officials take no action against the demonstrators.)
• You ask another of the Grannies who they are and whether they are just willing to protest anything, and she responds: "What we hope is that when young people see us out and about having our say, they will ask their own grannies what they think. Our generation has lived through a few things. We have things to say that matter." You ask her name and she says she is Barbara Baxter-Berman, a former librarian. She says she came to the grannies via the trade union movement. (She has been quoted at other Grannies events before.)
• You also ask the chairwoman of the meeting whether there will be any action as a result of the hearing; she says she will bring the matter before the Senate Elections Committee at its next meeting, a week from today.
• Because of the added controversy and demonstration, your editor says the story can run longer than originally assigned, but not more than 600 words.