A Princeton professor is reigniting the debate around potential election-rigging in U.S. elections, by reportedly showing it is possible to hack some voting machines in as little as seven minutes.
Politico reports that Professor Andrew Appel bought a Sequoia AVC Advantage online -- one of the oldest voting machines in the U.S. and deployed in Louisiana, New Jersey, Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Along with a graduate student, Appel went to work on the machine with a screwdriver, pulling out the ROM chips and replacing them with modified firmware that would throw off the machine’s results. Voters would be oblivious.
Appel is part of a group of so-called ‘cyber-academics’ who have spent a lot of their time hacking the electronic voting machines that took off in the wake of the controversy surrounding the 2000 presidential election. Since then, Appel and his colleagues have been working to convince the public that the system is unsecure and vulnerable to mischief.
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Tell me the DemocRATs are not doing this. There should be a tamper proof system if nothing more than to alert a change in programing / chips. If they can modify firmware they can develop a simple program for this detection.
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