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Gosh, I did this back in my high school as a Senior, two years ago. Got myself suspended for two days and ruined my perfect attendance, oh well. It scared the shit out of me when two police officers barged into my U.S. History class and pulled me out.

The usernames of our voting system were our 5 digit student IDs. And the passwords... same as the usernames. I wrote a puppeteer script that looped through 2000 IDs and voted for everyone. They tracked me down through my home IP address -- if there is a next time, I'll definitely use Tor haha.

EDIT: Yeah, the school's VP picked up on it because normally about 40% of the student body actually votes -- but this time it was 100%; plus when student's started signing into their voting accounts, it claimed they already voted. Not my brightest moment.




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