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This 9.5-minute video from Princeton shows that a Diebold touchscreen voting machine can be hacked. In this case, the hack was inserted by writing it onto a machine's memory card. (The machine's lock is highly pickable. Or you can simply unscrew the cover. Yikes.) It took them less than a minute to insert malicious code. Worse, it can be written as a virus so that it spreads from machine to machine via memory cards.

The Diebold model they hacked produces a paper trail. But the hack causes the intended vote to print out while recording the vote the hacker wants recorded.