Hacking Diebold voting machines

Hack the vote? No problem

Brad Friedman reports at Salon on the results of a study by computer scientists at Princeton University:

The study reveals that a computer virus can be implanted on an electronic voting machine that, in turn, could result in votes flipped for opposing candidates.

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The Princeton report shows that a virus could be inserted onto a Diebold voting system by a single individual "with just one or two minutes of unsupervised access to either the voting machine or the memory card," which is used with the system to store ballot definitions and vote tabulations.

The Princeton investigators' report includes a video demonstration of the mechanics of hacking the system.