This Week in Cybercrime: Could Maryland Voter Registration Vulnerability Affect Election Outcomes?

reports that a flaw in the implementation of the state of Maryland’s online voter registration process could have allowed widescale tampering with voters’ records . Researchers at the University of Michigan, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a former president of the Association for Computing Machinery wrote to members of the Maryland State Board of Elections in late September warning that anyone with access to a Maryland voter’s full name and date of birth could easily change the voter’s address or other information and possibly make him or her have to use a provisional ballot to vote on Election Day. What’s more, said the researchers, is that a simple software program could have launched a computer attack that changed the voter registration files of thousands of Maryland residents—without any of them or the Board of Elections noticing the problem until 6 Nov...

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