Summary of the article: There is a new way to hack voting machines that will be used in 2012 for elections which is disturbing, but even more disturbing is the fact that it can be hacked in a way that leaves no trace behind, and only costs a mere $10.50 worth of equipment to do it and the knowledge in the field of science that even kids as young as 8th grade learn.
The stakeholders are everybody in America, because if the system used to choose our leaders can be manipulated, it could lead to, in a worst case scenario, get a candidate elected that wouldn't have been elected otherwise, and if that said candidate was maybe viewed as un-qualified or un-worthy to be president, it could put our whole country at risk.
The area that it would impact would be all of them, because candidates each have different views on each of these areas and depending on who would be elected, some areas might be helped more than it usually would or some areas would lose needed funding or help.
The advantage is that voting machines make vote tallying easier to add up and more organized. Disadvantage is that they can, as you can see here, be manipulated.
A solution to the issue at hand simply would be to design new voting machines and/or different programs for them that cannot be hacked as easily, or they could do hand balloting, but the disadvantage to that is that it would take much, much longer to tally up all votes in all states.
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