man-in-the-middle is a type of hack in which the hacker inserts himself in the chain of connections between a computer and the DNS (domain name server). You can feed fake websites to your target and they will never know. Your address bar will tell you your at gmail, but your not. Or the man in the middle can use the setup as a tap to watch all your tcp and udp traffic. They can display a replica of your webtraffic on their end, just like they are looking over your shoulder. Codemonkey is insinuation that there is an man-in-the-middle between the main servers and the voting/tally machines.