New Securtity flaws from Diebold

New fears were reported Friday about a potential security risk in Diebold Election System touch-screen voting machines.
Officials in Pennsylvania and California have issued urgent directives in recent days about a possible problem and other states with similar equipment were assessing the seriousness of the problem, The New York Times said Friday.
Computer scientists said the problem might allow someone to tamper with a machine's software in the newest chapter in an emerging political and legal fight around the country over voting machines, the newspaper reported.
Michael I. Shamos, an examiner of electronic voting systems for Pennsylvania, where primary voting is scheduled Tuesday, calls it "the most severe security flaw ever discovered in a voting system."
Officials at Diebold and a number of states played down any risk, emphasizing to the Times there were no signs of tampering with the touch-screen machines.