Speaking as someone who is forced to vote on a proprietary touchscreen system with no paper trail, I wish researchers were finding cryptographic problems in my voting system.
Malice? User error? Ux idiocy? Who knows!
Fortunately, the NM courts agreed and prohibited the further use of the touchscreens.
What blows my mind is how invalidating (decertifying) the touchscreens has to be done in each state. I still can't fathom why the feds (eac.gov) can't just pull rank and ban them.
Article One, Section Four of the Constitution gives this power solely to the State and Federal legislatures. The Executive branch (and it'd probably the FEC, not the EAC) can't pull rank here unless Congress gives them the power to.
Which is it? Pick one.
HAVA is an act of Congress. It does not, to my knowledge, allow the FEC to confiscate voting machines. Maybe it should've been clearer - "no shitty touchscreens!" - but it wasn't.
Your concern trolling isn't even wrong. Please. Continue.