Computer security scientist Herbert Bos joins Dutch Electoral Council – Computer – News

Nobody, as a result of regardless of how necessary I feel it’s, I do not lose any sleep over 4 votes. (Or to be extra trustworthy, I actually do not keep in mind the totals very exactly)

Then you possibly can say “Aha, however as a brilliant good hacker I can apparently affect the grand totals somewhat bit, with out giving a rattling!”

After which my response is: in principle I can think about that, however then the query is what distinction it makes in follow. For instance you might get away with altering 0.1% of the votes with out being seen. Then you do not also have a room seat…

In brief: the Dutch system is now arrange in such a method that fraud* and the possibilities of fraud are minimal, with loads of scope for checking and retracing. By doing paper voting, we facilitate that and please let’s hold it that method (though the counting itself can be the worst job of any election, particularly with the massive fragmentation of the voters)

* my suspicion, however I’ve no method of substantiating this with figures, is that almost all fraud in NL elections takes place with the “personal” proxies. You realize that you simply carry the voting cross and a vote on behalf of another person
(in an effort to vote for a roommate who’s on trip, or for the neighbor who has problem strolling). The barrier to doing it’s fairly low and the scrutiny on the polling station is, by the very nature of the idea, solely a marginal scrutiny. When you’ve got a duplicate of the passport holder’s passport and the signature appears a bit off, then you possibly can go forward.
It’s unattainable to find out on the polling station whether or not there was really free will.

Because of the system (max 2 proxies, at all times with one’s personal voice), the scope of that is instantly restricted.

[Reactie gewijzigd door Keypunchie op 14 april 2023 19:36]