By Joseph Marks for Washington Post;

The Pentagon research agency that played a key role in inventing GPS and the Internet has a plan to make voting machines far more secure against hackers.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency intends to re-engineer voting machines’ hardware – basically the machines’ physical components, such as computer chips and circuits – so that many of the tricks hackers use to undermine the software become impossible.

That’s a fundamentally different approach from most cybersecurity efforts, which focus on updating and patching software each time a new bug is discovered.

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