Voting machine hacks

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• Subject: Voting machine hacks
• From: [email protected] (Douglas Lucas)
• Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 17:21:59 -0500

As U.S. election approaches...what are your least/favorite examples of
hacks of (esp. U.S.) computerized voting systems? You know, technical
ones, not propaganda and the idea of democractic voting itself.

BlackBoxVoting.org has an interesting collection of PDFs[1] of
technical material, including manuals, schematics, and troubleshooting,
for various voting system manufacturers, plus reports detailing
problems. (There are also the more straightforward non-technical issues,
like allowing people to actually watch the vote-counting.)

There's also the instance[2] of hackers putting Pac-Man on the Sequoia
AVC-Edge DRE voting machine without breaking any of the tamper-evident
seals.

Finally...in honor of all elections, to use a corporate term: blue-sky
thinking. If you were going after (esp. U.S.) computerized voting
systems, what would you do?

Douglas

[1] http://blackboxvoting.org/reports/voting-system-technical-information/

[2] https://jhalderm.com/pacman/

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