Voting Machine Analysis By Princeton University

Voting Machine Analysis By Princeton University

This video presents a fully independent security study of a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine,

including its hardware and software.

We obtained the machine from a private party. Analysis of the machine, in light of real election procedures,

shows that it is vulnerable to extremely serious attacks. For example, an attacker who gets physical access

to a machine or its removable memory card for as little as one minute could install malicious code; malicious

code on a machine could steal votes undetectably, modifying all records, logs, and counters to be consistent

with the fraudulent vote count it creates. An attacker could also create malicious code that spreads automatically

and silently from machine to machine during normal election activities - a voting-machine virus.