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A group of security researchers has published a fascinating study that demonstrates how to hack a Sequoia AVC Advantage voting machine. We have already seen several electronic voting machines hacked by experts in controlled environments, but this study goes a step further and shows that it can be done in the wild without privileged access to source code or other specialized materials.

The study was conducted by a group of voting machine security experts led by Ed Felten, the director of Princeton's Center for Information and Technology Policy. They used a technique called return-oriented programming to circumvent the built-in security mechanisms in an AVC Advantage voting machine and cause it to divert votes from one candidate to another in a simulated election.