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The Vulnerability Assessment Team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois has managed to breach all security measures in changing electronic voting results in Diebold machines, without rewriting software or altering the memory in way. In fact, the hacks have not required a cyber-attack of any sort.

Calling it the “Man in the Middle” attack, the VAT team operation required only a $25 piece of electronics inserted into the system between the voter and the main circuit board of the voting system allowing for complete control of the voter screen and the entire voting system along with it. Worse, it is undetectable either through the user (voter) end or the tabulation end of the system.

For a mere $15 extra, a common radio frequency remote control device can be used to manipulate the votes without the knowledge of the voter, from any location up to half a mile away.

“We believe these man-in-the-middle attacks are potentially possible on a wide variety of electronic voting machines,” said Roger Johnson, leader of the VAT assessment team. “We think we can do similar things on pretty much every electronic voting machine.”

The VAT “attack” required no modification, reprogramming or even knowledge of the voting machine’s proprietary source code. “This is a national security issue,” said Johnson. “It should really be handled by the Homeland Security Department.”

The Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) machines are scheduled to be used in 2012 Election Day voting in entire states such as Florida, Georgia, Maryland, and Nevada, and used at various polling stations in major municipalities of other states such as Texas, NY, Pennsylvania and California.

Critics of electronic voting have long suspected “problems” with voting, noting major voting discrepancies most notably in the presidential campaigns in 2004 and 2008, and in statewide off-year elections.

If you are thinking the voter is powerless in America, all it will take is $26 and an eighth grade aptitude for science to prove everyone wrong.

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