Tag Archives: election hack
3 nightmare election hack scenarios
Hackers could target e-voting machines’ software update systems or simply try to delegitimatize the election
The good news is a hack that changes the outcome of a U.S. presidential election would be difficult, although not impossible. First of all, there are technology challenges — more than 20 voting technologies are used across the country, including a half dozen electronic voting machine models and several optical scanners, in addition to hand-counted paper ballots.
