This last-minute voting-machine hack is drawing fire from security experts

Friday afternoon, US election officials got an unpleasant surprise. The security firm Cylance released a report disclosing a new attack on the popular Sequoia AVC Edge voting machine, potentially compromising both the machine’s public vote tally and a backup known as the Protective Counter. An accompanying video showed how the attack would take place, attacking the underlying software through a firmware port on the front of the machine. In the home stretch of election season, the result wa