UM: Voting Machines

A post on Geek.com describes how easy it was for researchers – including J. Alex Halderman at UM – to install the video game Pac-Man on a touchscreen voting machine, without breaking the machine’s tamper seals. A video shows the game being played on the machine. According to the post, they were able to install the game because of “a complete oversight on the part of the designers of the machine. The researchers found they could unscrew the case and get access to the underlying hardware without damaging the tamper seals.” [Source]