Argonne researchers 'hack' Diebold e-voting system

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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 cheap 
components.

The latest research was first reported by the Salon news site.

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