As anything the EFF writes, this article is heavily biased. There is a huge difference between "technologists fixing a voting system" and "technologists irresponsibly leaking the source code and private certs of a voting system"
Voting systems are sacrosanct.
If we can't have complete transparency and confidence in voting systems we might as well just give up.
[1] https://www.eleccionesciudad.gob.ar/uploads/resoluciones/ade...
[2] https://www.eleccionesciudad.gob.ar/uploads/OAT%20n%203-15-0...
Unfortunately, even after the actual report si finished, the university will not have permission to make it public. So we may never see the real results.
Having a report on the security of a system be issued months _after_ it is used is completely stupid. This is not simply his fault, it's the entire arrangement which is stupid.
The report shows that Righetti had access to the source code. Unless you are trying to say that he did not have access to the files in which _actual_ security vulnerabilities were found, or that the source code he was given was _different_ from the source code which was leaked, which contained egregious vulnerabilities.
Keep in mind he pockets hundreds of thousands of dollars in this arrangement. That's the part that adds insult to injury. Further, he does not teach information security or anything similar at university (he teaches networking), when there _are_ people teaching such things at UBA (FCEyN), who would have been better suited for the task.
The main issue was a security flaw that allowed somebody to directly download the SSL certs of the voting system from an URL.
Disclosing an election can be rigged with all the supporting evidence is your absolute duty. Doing anything else is not just irresponsbile, it's morally evil.
Covering it up by not disclosing is the action of someone who is LITERALLY an enemy of democracy and freedom.