I’d Vote For Pac-Man

by Sean Fallon on August 20, 2010

in Gaming

Sequoia AVC Edge DRE voting machines weren’t the most secure way to elect our nation’s officials, but those same insecurities made it fairly easy to hack and repurpose as a gaming machine. Over the course of three days, J. Alex Halderman and Ariel J. Feldman at the University of Michigan managed to load Pac-Man on this DRE without breaking any tamper-evident seals.

In other words, Pac-Man is a fun way to illustrate the frighting possibility of electronic election fraud. Check out a video of the machine in action after the break.

(Project Page via Make)

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