Alex Halderman<\/strong> and his students welcomed the opportunity to legally hack their system. Within 36 hours, they found a tiny error that gave them full control. \u201cThe flaw that we exploited was just such a small error\u2026[but] that was enough to let us remotely change all the votes,\u201d said Halderman. \u201cMy take is it\u2019s going to probably be decades before we\u2019ve made enough progress on just fundamental computer security problems before we can offer the same security with online voting that we expect today from paper ballots in a polling place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Online voting sounds like a dream. But ask cyber security experts and they\u2019ll tell you it\u2019s really a nightmare. In 2010, the District of Columbia piloted an Internet voting system and held a public trial to see if it could be infiltrated. 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