election with e-mails from colin powell and the democratic national committee being released. and talked about. but could a hacker actual change your vote? federal officials are adamant that would be nearly impossible. but is that correct? our senior correspondent investigates. can a machine be hacked? i have demonstrated how to hack the abc advantage voting machines that we use in new jersey. he is the bane of election officials because princeton university professor andrew lapel says the touch screen voting machine, the type used in about ten states, can be tampered with. i unlock the back door. in 2008, he demonstrated how as part of an election lawsuit against new jersey officials. while he notes there has been no documented case of a machine actually being hacked this way in a u.s. election, he said it could happen by simply swapping the machine s computer chip for
election with e-mails from colin powell and the democratic national committee being released. and talked about. but could a hacker actual change your vote? federal officials are adamant that would be nearly impossible. but is that correct? our senior correspondent investigates. can a machine be hacked? i have demonstrated how to hack the abc advantage voting machines that we use in new jersey. he is the bane of election officials because princeton university professor andrew lapel says the touch screen voting machine, the type used in about ten states, can be tampered with. i unlock the back door. in 2008, he demonstrated how as part of an election lawsuit against new jersey officials. while he notes there has been no documented case of a machine actually being hacked this way in a u.s. election, he said it could happen by simply swapping the machine s computer chip for
is really awful what s taken place there in terms of the people themselves. yes it is, we have to leave it there. we ll see you again, sir, thank you so much. good talking to you, arthel. thank you. back to the campaign here at home. election fraud has become an issue in the race on both sides of the aisle. tonight in our continuing series, we investigate hacking voting machines and in our professor told us it is possible because he did it. a demonstration where he changed the votes in a machine by swapping out the machine s computer chip for one that he programmed. election officials tell us this cannot happen in real life. they cite multiple security safeguards but the professor told us, he exposed a loophole. i figured out how to make a slightly different computer program that just before the close of the polls shifts some votes around from one candidate to another. and i wrote that computer
i ve never seen anything like that. okay, we have to leave it there, thank you, john. election fraud has become an issue on both sides of the aisle. our investigations continue on sunday s special report tomorrow night, the $4 computer chip that a princeton professor says could hack a voting machine. he says he did it in a demonstration and changed the votes. a ph.d. in computer science, he swapped out a machine s computer chip for his own. election officials tell us this cannot really happen in real life. they point to multiple safeguards. professor believes he s exposed a weakness in some voting machines. i figured out how to make a slightly different computer program that shifts some votes around to the other candidate. i vote that on a computer chip like this, to hack a voting
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