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  • Princeton Prof. Stirs Up E-Voting Controversy [Voting Machine Fraud]

    09/16/2006 9:11:02 PM PDT · by upchuck · 20 replies · 902+ views
    CIO.com ^ | Sep 15, 2006 | Al Sacco
    Edward Felten, a Princeton University computer science professor, along with two of his graduate students on Wednesday stirred up controversy surrounding the usage of electronic voting (e-voting) machines in U.S. elections by releasing a paper that claims they were able to hack the machines and upload malicious programs that could potentially modify vote tabulation, as well as shut down the machines, the Associated Press reports via Forbes.com. Felten posted the paper on the Princeton website, and it describes how he and his students obtained and tested a Diebold AccuVote TS e-voting machine and found a handful of vulnerabilities, including a...