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Monkey hacks Diebold machine

You gotta be kiddin' me.

Touchscreen Hack Effort Called 'Monkey Business'
But Black Box Voting on Wednesday demonstrated two quick ways that 'an unscrupulous person with no computer skills whatsoever' could sabotage vote totals, according to Associate Director Andy Stephenson.
The entire voting record can be deleted by choosing 'reset the election' on a drop-down menu, he said, or a hacker can destroy a tabulator's ability to recognize ballots by un-selecting three checkboxes on a program control panel.

There's a drop-down menu that says "reset the election"? Was this designed by the same people who install the "self-destruct" buttons in super villain lairs?

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