For a mere $82 a computer scientist and electronic voting criticmanaged to purchase five $5,000 Sequoia electronic voting machines overthe internet last month from a government auction site. And now he'staking them apart.


Princeton computer science professor Andrew Appel and his studentshave begun reverse-engineering the software embedded in the machines'ROM chips to determine if it has any security holes. But Appel says theease with which he and his students opened the machines and removed thechips already demonstrates that the voting machines are vulnerable tounauthorized modification.
original story:> Wired News




it would be very interesting if they are indeed able to do this. But i would wonder if they would keep what they find secret and report it to the relevant people/agency or would it be released to the general public also?