It seems they covered the other attack possibility with the new update as well but another researcher from Harvard was able to break the system so he could count the votes before the election was over. Plus, now there is a new big update and writing code for numerical methods in such a short period is never bug-free. Let's see how it plays.
How do you know that, though? Are you a citizen of Russia? Because if you are not, I'm suspicious.
I live in an undemocratic country but even then, we have a fairly good opposition and kind of a free media thanks to the journalists taking the risk of prison and social media so I was really surprised to find out there is no powerful opposition in my country, all of the media belongs to him and we citizens are just dumb people who wouldn't know our country better than outsiders.
The thing is, a leader can't hold that much power. If he lost the election, s/he can play dirty, fight etc. but wouldn't be able to do as s/he pleases with the results. There is always a balance they need to be careful about and not everything is black and white.