Researchers at Princeton’s Centre for Information Technology Policy have published a paper showing how lax the security is on a Diebold coting machine, and how easy it is to hack the system and steal an election.

For example, an attacker who gets physical access to a machine or its removable memory card for as little as one minute could install malicious code; malicious code on a machine could steal votes undetectably, modifying all records, logs, and counters to be consistent with the fraudulent vote count it creates. An attacker could also create malicious code that spreads automatically and silently from machine to machine during normal election activities — a voting-machine virus.

So that’s how Bush won Ohio!