http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220356/Argonne_researchers_hack_Diebold_e_voting_system_
By Jaikumar Vijayan
Computerworld
September 28, 2011
Researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory this week showed how an electronic voting machine model that's expected to be widely used to tally votes in the 2012 elections can be easily hacked using inexpensive,
widely-available electronic components.
Roger Johnston, head of the Vulnerability Assessment Team at the U.S. Department of Energy's science and engineering reseaech lab, said the hack, which requires about $25 and very little technical expertise, would let
cybercriminals "flip" votes gathered on Diebold Accuvote TS machines and change election results without raising any suspicion.
Johnston and his team have long warned about vulnerabilities in e-voting machines. And two years ago, the team demonstrated how a Sequoia touch screen e-voting machine could be similarly manipulated using ...
It's a bit incredible to me that after all the demonstrations of how easy it has been to hack these machines, the vendors would make a little bit more of an effort to at least avoid outright embarrassment.
Kudos to Argonne researchers for bringing this to our attention!
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