Flashback: Voting Machines Can Be Hacked With $26 and an 8th Grade EducationBy John Vibes The researchers who developed the hack were actually able to hijack a Diebold Accuvote TS electronic voting machine, one of the most popular voting systems at the time. Two of the lead researchers in the study were able to demonstrate a number of different ways that voting machines could be hacked. They used a $1.29 microprocessor and a circuit board that costs about $8, along with a $15 remote control. They demonstrated that the cheap hack worked from over a half-mile away. When the voter hits the vote now button to register his votes, we can blank the screen and then go back and vote differently and the voter will be unaware that this has happened. Spend an extra four bucks and get a better lock, you dont have to have state-of-the-art security, but you can do some things where it takes at least a little bit of skill to get in, Johnson said. As far as how easy the hack is, Johnson told Popsci that Ive been to high school science fairs where the kids had more sophisticated microprocessor projects. Watch the documentary Hacking Democracy for an in-depth look at the flawed voting machines the U.S. uses in the electoral process. Even if your vote is actually counted (it probably isnt), it still wont matter who wins in the end, anywaythey are all going to carry out the exact same policies with just slightly different rhetoric behind them. It should be obvious by now that this system is not only inherently corrupt, but also failing miserably and in the midst of collapse. John Vibes writes for TheAntiMedia.org. Tune in! Anti-Media Radio airs Monday through Friday @ 11pm Eastern/8pm Pacific. Image credit: Ciudadania Digital. Help us fix our typos: edits@theantimedia.org. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. H. L. Mencken Democraps working hard to win all future elections The Help America Vote Act that brought computer voting machines to all the states was brought to us courtesy of the Bush Administration. Do not be fooled by the red-blue meme. One party the corporate party controls both the Democrats and the Republicans. That is why Congress hasnt written a piece of legislation that benefits the people in over fifteen years, and corporations are raking in huge profits. Keeping the people divided and hating each other is the plan so that we dont look up and notice who is pulling both sets of strings. Oh no. They keep a very close 50 50 relationship on purpose so they can waddle the line losing and winning as needed to advance the elite agenda and continue the con job of the two parties pretending to lose and win to keep the people passive and fooled. Maybe this is why Obama was so sure he was going to be reelected in 2012. There never seemed to be any doubt in his mind that he was going to do a second term. This doesnt even address the other way votes can be tampered with. When punched cards are generated by a voting machine (older technology?) and the cards are sent to a central computer for counting at the end of election day, the counting program could have been written to change votes only under certain conditions. It is a conditional action very familiar to even beginning programming students. That still doesnt help the low budget candidate who would have to pay for the re-count. The solution is hand marked and hand counted ballots. They should be counted at the precinct after closing and again at the central location the ballots are taken to. It actually doesnt take much longer to count than computerized voting with punched cards. 