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A human error caused a batch of votes in a school board election to be entered twice in the totals. A recent software "upgrade" broke the code that was supposed to warn if anyone made such a mistake.

The error was detected later and corrected, but more important than that one election is what this tells us about all elections that use those machines: the manufacturer could rig an election by installing a bent "upgrade".

I see no reason to think the manufacturer tried intentionally to do anything wrong in this instance. The bug had an effect this time only because of a human error, and the human had no reason to try such an error intentionally since it was probably going to be detected.

However, another manufacturer (or some employee) could intentionally "upgrade" the software wrong, some other time.

The article doesn't say which jobs those machines actually do. How significant this potential vulnerability is depends on that question.