A team of independent computer security researchers found the Diebold Election System is vulnerable to unscrupulous voters, as well as "insiders such as poll workers, software developers and even janitors."
The system allows ballots to be cast on a 15-inch touch-screen monitor.
"'I don't think it can be done right now this way," said Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins University, a lead...
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