Researchers Hack Voting Machine for $26

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Researchers Hack Voting Machine for $26

Posted: 9/30/2011 10:51:28 AM EDT

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/30/researchers-hack-voting-machine-for-26/?test=latestnews

"Researchers from the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois have
developed a hack that, for about $26 and an 8th-grade science education,
can remotely manipulate the electronic voting machines used by millions of voters all across the U.S."

Posted: 9/30/2011 1:18:07 PM EDT

[#1]

Well, duh. If you have physical access to the voting machine and its internals, you could just replace it with a whole new computer, too.

Posted: 9/30/2011 1:26:26 PM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:

Well, duh. If you have physical access to the voting machine and its internals, you could just replace it with a whole new computer, too.

Anything can be compromised, the point is it shouldn't be as easy as attaching $20 worth of home made electronics to do it.

Posted: 9/30/2011 1:27:41 PM EDT

[#3]

For $0 I can punch out any answer I want on a stack of paper ballots if I had access.

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Researchers Hack Voting Machine for $26

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