NEW YORK, June 27 (UPI) -- A study by the New York-based non-partisan Brennan Center for Justice has listed more than 120 security threats affecting U.S. electronic voting machines.
The study says most of the machines, which were installed following the 2000 presidential election, "pose a real danger to the integrity of national, state and local elections," reports USA Today.
The yearlong study was done for the think tank by a task force of election officials, computer scientists and security experts. The task force examined optical scanners and touch-screen machines with and without paper trails, which will account for 80 percent of the voting machines used in this November's election.
Task force chairman Lawrence Norden said there has been no documented case of hackers attacking the voting machines but warned similar attacks have occurred on computerized gambling slot machines.
Among the findings, the study said even electronic systems that use voter-verified paper records are subject to attack unless they are regularly audited. It also said most states have not implemented election procedures or countermeasures to detect software attacks.
