Software to capture votes in upcoming German national election is insecure
Of note in general regarding elections in Germany is that there&#x27;s constitutional right to be able to follow the process of elections including the vote count. That&#x27;s also the reason behind electronic voting machines being banned because, while counting votes by hand is cumbersome, it&#x27;s a process that everyone can follow and understand. You can actually watch the counting process if you want to.<p>And as the article states, at least one state apparently don&#x27;t trust this software enough that they mandate verification that the correct results have been transmitted and obtained via an independent channel.<p>The only benefit all this has is that a preliminary result of an election can be obtained a few hours earlier. Whether that&#x27;s worth having an election that can be manipulated without anyone noticing is anyone&#x27;s guess, but I believe the BVerfG may have a say in that, as it did for voting machines.