Voting Machines Can be Hacked by Remote Control ...Salon

[TheMadMonk]

34. Actually it's worse than that. Most of the OLD methodologies still work.

This is just a simpler and more elegant way of doing it.

And my bog roll dispenser key still fits the lock.

Failing a job in the bog buffing trade, a second or two with a snap pick, or ten with a bobby pin will get you in.

As an absolute first: devices like POS terminals and electronic voting machines should be totally sealed units. SOLID blocks of catalytically fused polymer.

And really if you are going to have fully electronic voting, then realistically the smart thing to do is to make every possible step along the way, "too stupid to be fooled" with dedicated electronics. Never let a general purpose (and thus repurposable and corruptable) device occupy any critical part of the voting process. Wherever practicable follow up an electronic transfer of polling data with a physical confimation.