[pchelpers] News:Most voting machines can be hacked, report says

Posted on Sat, Oct. 18, 2008 

By Angela Delli Santi 

Associated Press

TRENTON - The electronic voting machines used in 18 of New Jersey's 21
counties can be hacked into in as little as seven minutes and
manipulated to alter votes or fix elections, a new report by a Princeton
University professor shows.

The report, by Andrew Appel of the Center for Information Technology
Policy at Princeton, was released yesterday after a hearing in an
ongoing lawsuit to void the machines as unreliable.

More here:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/31222984.html
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