(AP) -- Elections officials in Washington have decided to scale back for now an online voting system after University of Michigan students testing the system managed to hack the system and get the site to play the school's fight song. For the past week the D.C. Board of Elections & Ethics has encouraged outsiders to try to find faults with the system, which was designed to allow some 950 military and overseas voters cast ballots online. The system had not yet been put into effect, but officials had hoped to use it for the November election.
Paul Stenbjorn, the board's director of information services, says officials discovered the hack on Wednesday and pulled down the site Friday. It has been down since but a scaled back version is expected to go back up Tuesday.
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