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Re:Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords afte... by albert_e on Friday November 01, 2024 @12:23AM (#42014040)
Curious to know more. Is there a good source of information on the security of the hardware and software used for elections India.

As an Indian citizen I see the casual lack of security mindset in large swathe of things implemented by both public and private actors. Many things get better only though iterative failures and corresponding reactive fixes.

What type of failures and improvements have happened here, or instances of demonstrated hardness against those with motivation and access to machinery.

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Re:Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords afte... by samarthr1 on Friday November 01, 2024 @12:49AM (#42014139)
IIRC it uses tamper evident hardware.

There was an interview with one of the Profs who designed the EVMs here.

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Re:Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords afte... by viewtransform on Sunday November 03, 2024 @01:05AM (#42031419)
Electronic Voting Machine/Elections in India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlHJZrXrnyQ

The Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) do simple counting of key presses and keep tally of the totals.

The machines are not reprogrammable, run on alkaline batteries and have no WiFi/Bluetooth, USB or ethernet.

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