It turned out that the e-voting machine could easily easily tamper with the vote result from hacking



Virginia state election management committee located in the eastern part of the United States revoked the use of the electronic voting machine because there is a possibility that a person without special skill can hack the electronic voting machine.

Meet the e-voting machine so easy to hack, it will take your breath away | Ars Technica
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The Virginia state election administration committee "The AVS WINVoteI canceled the use of the electronic voting machine. The AVS WINVote cleared the standard as an electronic voting machine and was also used in Pennsylvania State and Mississippi State.


According to the information published by the information technology agency in Virginia state, The AVS WINVote can log in with a simple password such as "admin" or "shoup", and change the database of the result of the vote as it is This seems to be the reason why the Virginia State Election Commission has canceled the use of The AVS WINVote.

According to a report raised from a district in Virginia State, the voting in November 2014 showed an error disturbing the voting on some electronic voting machines, the information technology institution embarked on the investigation, it was easy I can not log in with a password.

The AVS WINVote's Wi-Fi can understand the password in about 10 minutes of analysisWEPusing. In addition, The AVS WINVote works on Windows XP, and since 2004 security patches have not been applied. In addition, it is obvious that using The AVS WINVote is highly risky, including that the firewall is unused and that some important ports remain open.


In addition, when the information technology agency conducted the security test of The AVS WINVote, I proved that the confidentiality and integrity of the voting result is in danger. In the test, the auditor connects to The AVS WINVote via Remote Desktop Connection, downloads the database containing the voting results, and in 10 seconds the password is "shoup ​​(name before the company that created The AVS WINVote)" I grasp something, I copied the whole database, changed the contents and succeeded in returning the data to the terminal.

Looking at the test results, it is clear that there were serious flaws in electronic voting machines that have supported American democracy for many years.

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