An easy-to-find $15 piece of hardware is all it takes to hack a voting machine

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by Sindy Cator on August 10, 2016 at 8:50 pm

In the US, approximately 70 percent of states use some form of electronic voting. Hacks on these voting machines have been detailed for years, but a CBS report shows that it doesn’t exactly require a security expert to hack the vote. To hack a voting machine, it appears, all you need is a $15 card that you can find in a number of places online. “I can insert it, and then it resets the card, and now I’m able to vote again,” said Brian Varner, a principle researcher at Symantec. “For $15 and in-depth knowledge of the card, you could hack…