From Ballots to Code: Exploring Election Security
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Claims a hands‑on audit: 739 FOI requests produce PDFs covering 4.3M of 4.8M paper votes and reveal counting inconsistencies (95 extra votes in one municipality, 34 municipalities with >1% discrepancies, 31 places where counted votes exceed voters). Demonstrates practical exploits — copied election stamps, flimsy two‑tie seals on 32L boxes, and ability to order a counterfeit stamp — and documents 357 coordinated alerts to authorities while noting partial source code (last update 2019) and stamped ballots copied easily.
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