I suppose that this is what happens when you put software online and ask people to test it.

“Within 36 hours of the system going live, our team had found and exploited a vulnerability that gave us almost total control of the server software, including the ability to change votes and reveal voters’ secret ballots. In this post, I’ll describe what we did, how we did it, and what it means for Internet voting.”

Alex Halderman’s totally epic hack of the DC internet voting system pilot program – Boing Boing.