Definitely don't freak out over how easy it was to hack this voting machine

Here's a fun fact on the eve of perhaps the most contentious election in recent American history: It's totally possible to hack a voting machine and alter its final tally.

Cylance, a cybersecurity firm, demonstrated a hack against a Sequoia AVC Edge Mk1 machine in a video released Friday. (You can watch it above.) The Sequoia machine uses individual flash memory cards to record votes, which are then stored in the device's internal memory and a "Results Cartridge." Cylance was apparently able to mess with the internal memory and results cartridge using a doctored card, completely changing candidates' names and the number of votes each received. Read more...