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PAC-MAN on a voting machine

2 comments, 137 views, posted 3:10 pm 11/08/2012 in Geek by bradpitt
bradpitt has 3005 posts, 1742 threads, 1 points

This is the Sequoia AVC Edge touch-screen DRE voting machine. In 2008, it was used in jurisdictions
with almost 9 million voters. Alex Halderman and Ari Feldman replaced the voting software with Pac-Man.
They did this in three afternoons, without breaking any tamper-evident seals. It would be easy to modify
the software to steal votes, but that's been done before, and Pac-Man is more fun.


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5:53 pm 11/08/2012

z0phi3l

This is why Democrats are all over e-voting, ALL these machines are easily hackable

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6:04 pm 11/08/2012

Quaektem

It should always be paper ballot, though not impossible to defraud it at least leaves a method of recount.

If they want a real method add a chemical, numbered watermark to the ballots or even have the machines themselves stamp the ballots with a time code to make it much harder to randomly fill out a stack.

The reason voting fraud charges are so rare is because it is so easy to do without getting caught.

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