The Oakland Tribune offers this report, which begins: “Back in May, voting activists went on the Internet and for $300 apiece purchased two devices used to record moisture levels in corn. Certain corn scanners use the same memory cards as Diebold Election Systems’ optical-scanning machines for ballots and can easily modify them. That makes corn scanners into a tool for vote hacking. Sitting by a hotel pool last spring in Florida, Finnish computer expert Harri Hursti wrote his own program onto a memory card so it could alter poll results on a Diebold machine in Leon County and flash a screen message — ‘Are we having fun yet?’ — that shocked the local elections supervisor.”