Posted on 03/06/2012 4:19:43 PM PST by Bender2
Hackers Elect Futurama’s Bender to the Washington DC School Board
By Kevin Lee, PCWorld
Mar 2, 2012 11:39 AM
Electronic voting has earned a pretty bad reputation for being insecure and completely unreliable. Well, get ready to add another entry to e-voting's list of woes.
One Bender Bending Rodríguez was elected to the 2010 school board in Washington DC. A team of hackers from the University of Michigan got Bender elected as a write-in candidate who stole every vote from the real candidates. Bender, of course, is a cartoon character from the TV series Futurama (and, of course, Free Republic!).
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