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Switzerland-not low stakes-uses online voting for national elections. Like any internet voting system, it has inherent security vulnerabilities: if there are malicious insiders, they can corrupt the vote count; and if thousands of voters' computers are hacked by malware, the malware can change votes as they are transmitted.
Andrew Appel has a long analysis of the Swiss online voting system. It’s a really good analysis of both the system and the official analyses.
A group of election security experts said after a deep dive into Australia's electronic voting systems that they have "Serious problems" with the accuracy, integrity and privacy with elections run by the Australian Capital Territory Electoral Commission. The team of four cybersecurity professionals concluded that the ACT e-voting system errors did not impact any election outcomes, but could potentially sway future vote counts if left uncorrected.
As it emerges non-internet-connected election systems are actually connected to the internet Black Hat While various high-tech solutions to secure electronic voting systems are being touted this...
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The US Government is working on an electronic voting system that it hopes will prevent people from tinkering with voting machines at the polls.
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The Swiss government last week announced the launch of a public bug bounty program for its electronic voting systems, with rewards of up to $50,000. read more
Paper's safer, says parliamentary committee An Australian parliamentary committee has nixed the idea of internet voting for federal elections Down Under, for now.…
It’s a typical Wednesday. I’m sitting in the lounge at the Imperva office going through emails when I stumble onto a whitepaper titled Trust Implications of DDoS Protection in Online Elections....