New Security Glitch Found in Diebold System

Elections officials in several states are scrambling to understand and limit the risk from a dangerous security hole found in Diebold Election Systems’s ATM-like touch-screen voting machines. Armed with a little basic knowledge of Diebold voting systems and a standard component available at any computer store, someone with a minute or two of access to a Diebold touch screen could load virtually any software into the machine and disable it, redistribute votes or alter its performance in myriad ways — via Bruce Schneier