Hacking the vote.

Inside Bay Area - New security glitch found in Diebold system: "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."

Somehow I find myself imagining that if a flaw of this magnitude were discovered in Diebold's ATM machines it'd be fixed by start of business tomorrow. But here we're not talking money, just votes. California, Pennsylvania, and Iowa (assuming there really is an Iowa) have taken some kind of action but the National Association of State Elections Directors has responded with a collective ho-hum.

Pay attention, Bunky. Our electoral system is munged. We'd better get it fixed in a hurry or we'll wind up walking around with purple fingers, too. And all that goes with that.