This article also mentions the revolutionary work on Johns Hopkins researchers that I mentioned earlier. This article says that these researchers were able to exploit these flaws using a code that was stolen from the Diebold headquarters which Diebold claimed that the software was "outdated and never was used in an actual election."
“Common voters, without any insider privileges, can cast unlimited votes without being detected by any mechanisms within the voting terminal,” this is what was determined by the research that the 4 men were involved in. Apparently the code that the researchers used came from a New Zealand based website that they claimed they downloaded from the internet from an unprotected Diebold site.
Diebold also says the consistently update the software to stay in compliance with requirements set forth. Sadly for Diebold the researchers said that software would have to be completely rebuilt to fill the gaping holes in this system. “The stuff that we looked at is not something from which you could evolve a secure system,” “We found vulnerabilities everywhere we looked,” “A 15-year-old computer enthusiast could make these counterfeit cards in a garage and sell them,” “Then even an ordinary voter, without knowing anything about computer code, could cast more than one vote for a candidate at a polling place that uses this electronic voting system.”said Avi Rubin one of the researchers.
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