Study: All Electronic Voting Machines Vulnerable to Software Attacks

With the mid-term elections less than five months away, the battle over Congress is heating up across the country. Will Democrats retake the House and Senate? Or will Republicans retain control? Everything comes down to one day in November, when millions of Americans cast their votes. But will your vote really count? Consider this: A single person with technical knowledge could alter the outcome of an election by tampering with the software used by electronic voting machines.

That's one of the findings of a major new report on electronic voting. The study conducted by the Brennan Center for Justice concluded that the three most common types of electronic voting machines are all vulnerable to software attacks that could threaten the integrity of a state or national election. The year-long study is considered the most comprehensive ever done on electronic voting.

* Lawrence Norden, Associate Counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice. For the past year he has led the center's voting technology assessment project. He is the lead author of their new report "The Machinery of Democracy: Security, Accessibility, Usability, Cost."

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