# I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming | WIRED

<https://www.wired.com/story/i-bought-used-voting-machines-on-ebay/>

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## What Jamie wrote

This whole article is concerning. It shouldn't be this easy to get these devices and dissect them for flaws.

> If getting voting machines delivered to my door was shockingly easy, getting inside them proved to be simpler still. The tamper-proof screws didn’t work, all the computing equipment was still intact, and the hard drives had not been wiped. The information I found on the drives, including candidates, precincts, and the number of votes cast on the machine, were not encrypted. Worse, the “Property Of” government labels were still attached, meaning someone had sold government property filled with voter information and location data online, at a low cost, with no consequences. It would be the equivalent of buying a surplus police car with the logos still on it.

Eek.

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