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But Maryland election officials agreed with Bear that no hacking can happen unless the hacker is physically at the computer. The central tabulators are safe from any such outside tampering, said Donna Duncan, director for the Maryland State Board of Elections election management division.
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Last I heard, they still hadn't unplugged the modems. If I lived in MD, I could either get a job on the election monitoring staff, of find someone on the staff who was willing to show me the machines (yes, they're that poorly guarded,) get a password and log in, or get the phone number and crack a random password (which could also be done by a trained monkey,) and start playing around with GEMS.
Alternately, I could just spend thirty seconds to try every possible two-number combination that can be entered into a secret, undocumented dialogue box, creating a second table of votes in the database, and read from that table when sending votes to the tabulator instead of the actual vote tables.