Cybersecurity Experts: It Takes Only One Person To Change An Election's Outcome...

Washington Post   |   Zachary A. Goldfarb   |   June 28, 2006 06:20 PM


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To determine what it would take to hack a U.S. election, a team of cybersecurity experts turned to a fictional battleground state called Pennasota and a fictional gubernatorial race between Tom Jefferson and Johnny Adams. It's the year 2007, and the state uses electronic voting machines.

Jefferson was forecast to win the race by about 80,000 votes, or 2.3 percent of the vote. Adams's conspirators thought, "How easily can we manipulate the election results?"

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