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Cyber-Risks in Paper Voting

Sommer, David M.; Schneider, Moritz; Gut, Jannik; Capkun, Srdjan;

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Published: 18 Jun 2019

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Paper ballot voting with its fully-verifiable paper-trail is usually considered as more secure than their e-voting counterparts, given the large number of recent incidents. In this work, we explore the security of paper voting and show that paper voting, as it is implemented today, is surprisingly vulnerable to cyber-attacks. In particular, the aggregation methods of preliminary voting results of various countries rely on insecure communication channels like telephone, fax or non-secure e-mail. Furthermore, regulations typically do not mandate the use of secure channels for the transmission of preliminary results. We illustrate that preliminary results, despite ...

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