Newsweek: Can Elections Be Hacked? Online Voting Threatens 32 States, Report Says
โThere are two concerns with email voting," in which ballots and voter identification information are typically attached as a PDF or JPEG.ย "Oneโthe ballots can be intercepted and undetectably altered or deleted. This hack was performed at DEF CON in August. And itโs something academics have long known,"ย Susannah Goodman of Common Cause an one of the authors of the report, toldย Newsweek.ย "Secondโemailed ballots can be easily spoofed in a spear phishing attack designed to put malware on a county election officialโs computer.โ