Hackers participate in a competition at the DefCon conference Friday, Aug. 5, 2011, in Las Vegas.--This article was produced by , a project of the Independent Media Institute.The Las Vegas strip may be the foremost place in America to escape from everyday life. But this past weekend’s  — for hackers, programmers, technologists, security experts, and anyone else on the frontlines of cyberspace — was a sobering reckoning with America’s fraught voting systems.In virtually every corner—in presentations, a “” where college students took apart and reprogrammed currently used voting machines,...…Hackers participate in a competition at the DefCon conference Friday, Aug. 5, 2011, in Las Vegas.--This article was produced by , a project of the Independent Media Institute.The Las Vegas strip may be the foremost place in America to escape from everyday life. But this past weekend’s  — for hackers, programmers, technologists, security experts, and anyone else on the frontlines of cyberspace — was a sobering reckoning with America’s fraught voting systems.In virtually every corner—in presentations, a “” where college students took apart and reprogrammed currently used voting machines,...WW…