According to security experts at a recent RSA Conference in San Francisco, the U.S. will pick a new president using electronic voting machines that can be hacked. As the November election approaches, the question before officials is not how to fix known bugs in their e-voting systems, but how best to check them for fraud, says David Wagner, an associate professor with the University of California, Berkeley's computer science department. Wagner was part of the team that audited California's voting systems, and the problems his team found affect counties across the U.S. "The systems we looked at are three of the most widely used around the nation," he said during a panel discussion at the show, which was held April 7-11.
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