This is more about the lack of proper security and audits than whether e voting can be secure.
There's a documentary about where a SIGNED INTEGER is used for a variable to tally votes. When the fuck would you ever need a vote to be negative? On, well that's not supposed to be a problem because the software can only increment data fields read from a memory card.
Ah, but if you have a signed value field then you can pre-load the memory cards with negative vote counts for the candidates you don't like. We know this happened because in some places the vote count for candidates came up negative. The machine / software can only increment the counter... so that means the memcards were hacked. over half the planet's population voted on a few machines and caused an integer roll over to negative (which was also not checked for in the software, BTW).
Hacking Democracy - good documentary, look it up on archive.org.
Netherlands reverts to hand-counted votes to quell security fears • The Register
"The Netherlands has decided its vote-counting software isn't ready for prime time, and will revert to hand-counted votes for its March 15 election.", "Plasterk's letter says until this decision was made, the software had been used to count votes for all steps after the polling station counts."
'He also claimed that unsecured USB sticks would be used to move electoral data. '
'Using the software in the March election would “lead to the persistence of publications about the reliability of the software” and erode trust in the election result. '
'In a letter sent to the House of Representatives, Minister of the Interior Dr. '
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1 u/who-am-i 08 Feb 2017 08:48
This is more about the lack of proper security and audits than whether e voting can be secure.
There's a documentary about where a SIGNED INTEGER is used for a variable to tally votes. When the fuck would you ever need a vote to be negative? On, well that's not supposed to be a problem because the software can only increment data fields read from a memory card.
Ah, but if you have a signed value field then you can pre-load the memory cards with negative vote counts for the candidates you don't like. We know this happened because in some places the vote count for candidates came up negative. The machine / software can only increment the counter... so that means the memcards were hacked. over half the planet's population voted on a few machines and caused an integer roll over to negative (which was also not checked for in the software, BTW).
Hacking Democracy - good documentary, look it up on archive.org.
0 u/derram 02 Feb 2017 19:17
https://archive.is/aqyzo | https://vgy.me/tRjokC.png :
"The Netherlands has decided its vote-counting software isn't ready for prime time, and will revert to hand-counted votes for its March 15 election.", "Plasterk's letter says until this decision was made, the software had been used to count votes for all steps after the polling station counts."
'He also claimed that unsecured USB sticks would be used to move electoral data. '
'Using the software in the March election would “lead to the persistence of publications about the reliability of the software” and erode trust in the election result. '
'In a letter sent to the House of Representatives, Minister of the Interior Dr. '
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0 u/Datawych 03 Feb 2017 11:59
Nicely done, you Dutch bastards.