If you didn’t think there could be more reasons to dump the wholly unreliable and laughably insecure electronic voting machines, get ready to be dumbfounded.
“Bender Bending Rodriguez” better known as simply Bender, from the television series Futurama, was elected to the 2010 school board in Washington DC. That’s right; a cartoon character was written in and won by a landslide, thanks to the hard work of hackers from the University of Michigan.
The most astounding part of the whole story is that it only took them a few hours to accomplish the feat.
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/03/hackers-elect-cartoon-character-to.html#more
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