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Security flaws left Ontario's 2022 municipal online elections exposed to attack

4 points| cool_cherry | 5 months ago |cbc.ca

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cool_cherry|5 months ago

The paper that this CBC article is based on: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-05036-6_...

There's a great and very detailed report written after the 2018 municipal elections that outlines some security issues with online voting in practice:

https://whisperlab.org/ontario-online.pdf

I'll also shamelessly plug my thesis which, among other things, describes an interesting ballot secrecy vulnerability in one online voting system that allows a passive network observer to determine who someone voted for:

https://uwo.scholaris.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/4e74d806...