By rights, the following headline ought to be the Onion or the Borowitz Report. But it's not.

[xiphias]

Election hacked, drunken robot elected to school board

The actual paper is here, if you want to read the actual conference proceedings:
https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/dcvoting-fc12.pdf

In short, DC did a test-run of their voting system, and white-hat hackers were invited to test it.

The degree to which the system failed, and what the white-hats did is absolutely HYSTERICAL.

Comments

[plantmom.livejournal.com]

That is hilarious. Absolutely hilarious.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Also, terrifying. I'd also point out what's missing in that report: the slightest hint that the DC election commission did anything to make their voting more secure.

[plantmom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wondered about that too.

[rymrytr.livejournal.com]

And for me, the questions moves from "did they", to "will they"...