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| Exclusive: A laboratory shows how an e-voting machine used by a third of all voters can be easily manipulated.It could be one of the most disturbing e-voting machine hacks to date. Voting machines used by as many as a quarter of American voters heading to the polls in 2012 can be hacked with just $10.50 in parts and an 8th grade science education, according to computer science and security experts at the Vulnerability Assessment Team at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The experts say the newly developed hack could change voting results while leaving absolutely no trace of the manipulation behind. 'The really nice thing about this attack, the man-in-the-middle, is that there's no soldering or destruction of the circuit board of any kind,' Warner says. 'You can remove this attack and leave no forensic evidence that we've been there.' |
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