Well it isn't primarily the technicality aspect but rather the same risks that apply to end users are also applied to the people working at the polling station and their equipment, bringing it up when you are talking about one side only is just a tactic to discredit it. That being said, modern phone OSes are also unlike before, app isolation among others prevent such attacks, I don't think I came across a new attack that just altered another app on the fly, otherwise, we would have hundreds of cases of people getting their bank accounts compromised. In fact, I think from a technical standpoint, the risks of having such malware on end users' devices are harder to implement compared to infecting say the Android OS running on the voting screen at the polling station, or anywhere else in the process. Because in the end users' ones you can restrict the app to run under certain criteria similar to banking ones, and independent security researchers can check it for potential vulnerabilities, meanwhile an internal app used in the polling station won't have these measures, and you can even assume the OS/packages are outdated and vulnerable, making it far less secure, something like how flock cameras Android OS is a security nightmare for example.
tamimio|1 month ago
Vecr|1 month ago