Election Machine Insecurity Story
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Interesting story of a flawed computer voting machine and a paper ballot available for recount. All ended well, but only because of that paper backup.
Vote totals in a Northampton County judge’s race showed one candidate, Abe Kassis, a Democrat, had just 164 votes out of 55,000 ballots across more than 100 precincts. Some machines reported zero votes for him. In a county with the ability to vote for a straight-party ticket, one candidate’s zero votes was a near statistical impossibility. Something had gone quite wrong.
Boing Boing post.
Tags: cybersecurity, voting, vulnerabilities
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