NYT: Scientists’ Tests Hack Into Electronic Voting Machines, TOO EASY!

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Scientists’ Tests Hack Into Electronic Voting Machines in California and Elsewhere
By CHRISTOPHER DREW
Published: July 28, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/28/us/28vote.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Computer scientists from California universities have hacked into three electronic voting systems used in California and elsewhere in the nation and found several ways in which vote totals could potentially be altered ....

.... House leaders announced in Washington that they had reached an agreement on measures to revamp voting systems and increase their security.

The House bill would require every state to use paper records that would let voters verify that their ballots had been correctly cast and that would be available for recounts.

The House majority leader, Representative Steny H. Hoyer, Democrat of Maryland, and the original sponsor of the bill, Representative Rush D. Holt, Democrat of New Jersey, said it would require hundreds of counties with paperless machines to install backup paper trails by the presidential election next year while giving most states until 2012 to upgrade their machines further.

Critics of the machines said that some of the measures would be just stopgaps .....