This article brought up some research that was not conducted by the Johns Hopkins University students. The research that this article was on was set up by the Brennan Center to examine the possible flaws.
Larry Norden, chairman of the task force and an attorney at the Brennan Center, said that over the past several years, half of all manual voting systems in the U.S. have been replaced with electronic devices. Elections officials cite the need to meet the requirements of various federal laws and the need for improved accuracy in installing the systems. He also said "we've not necessarily adapted our [security] procedures to that new technology."
This research has found some 120 threats to the voting system and that they have no systems in place to detect software attacks. "This nonpartisan report ... confirms what many of us have believed for years: Electronic machines are all vulnerable to error or manipulation that could change the outcome of elections," said Rep. Rush Holt.
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