Looks like it’s at least a possibility that DefCon won’t be the only place hackers can compete for prizes by exposing flaws in US voting systems. Proposed legislation with bipartisan sponsorship – US senators Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) – would empower the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to sponsor a competition similar to DefCon’s “Voting Machine Hacking Village” this past summer that – not surprisingly – resulted in white-hat hackers finding numerous vulnerabilities in voting machine software.

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