I Thought This Sort Of Thing Only Happened,

in banana republics,

and not in the UK, but it has happened, in the parish town of Highworth, in Wiltshire, 3,000 votes were counted, but wait for it, there were only 2,477 people voting! the local borough council returning officer, responsible for the election count, conceded that there had “clearly” been an error but told residents that, once the result was declared, there was nothing she could legally do about it, but an appeal might be on the way, which brings me on to this article, about voting on the other side of the pond, the organizers of the 27th DefCom Conference turned hackers loose on election technology inside a special event called Voting Village, “This is the Accuvote TSX. It’s used in 18 different states, 8 of which are swing states,” explains hacker Rachel Tobac, pointing to a voting machine. “I’m gonna show you how in under 2 minutes, you can use this machine to disrupt an election,” she continues, “How sophisticated does one have to be to do what you just did?”, asked the reporter, “I learned it in 15 minutes last year,” she replied, that would be really messed up if it happens in the next elections, thankfully, the hackers say that the system can be improved and made to be more secure, so that's a relief.