Is it possible to influence the election result? The opinion of IT experts

Is it possible to influence the election result? The opinion of IT experts
Is it possible to influence the election result? The opinion of IT experts
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“Holes” can be made in any program in each of the stages. However, whether there is a possibility that they will remain unnoticed, and whether the company “SOAAR” theoretically could have managed to “draw in the pluses” for Solvita Āboltiņa and remain unnoticed, the portal “Delfi” explained by asking representatives of the IT industry – Kirill, head of the security company “Possible Security” Solovyov and software engineer Elvis Strazdina.

Vaicāts par “SOAAR” drošību, viņš pauž, ka šajā nozarē ir ļoti augstas drošības prasības.

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“Man nav nekādu pierādījumu, ka “SOAAR” to [viltošanu] have tried to do and I see no reason why to do so. Reputation and reliability are paid for in such orders. Technically, there are all kinds of possibilities – everything can be done on a computer. In any phase, it can be programmed so that something goes wrong – both in the scanning phase and in the phase of preparing the station report, uploading or sending to CVK, or in the publication phase. […] From a developer’s point of view, you can poke “holes” in the system to tweak things. I assume that in this case, similarly to “e-Saeima”, [to] is audited at several levels,” the expert tells the “Delfi” portal.

Solovjovs uzsver, ka, viņaprāt, līdz šim demokrātijas apdraudējuma vēlēšanu procesā nav bijis, jo ir samērā spēcīga vēlēšanu novērotāju sistēma.

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“Tā sistēma kopumā funkcionē, jo varam paļauties, ka ieinteresētā puse – partijas novērotājs – rakstīs sūdzību, ja viņam kaut kas datos nesakritīs. Ja partijas novērotājs grib, viņš var būt uz vietas visu nakti, var piedalīties procesā no A līdz Z, pierakstīt rezultātus kādā smalkumā grib, un pēc tam internetā ar dažu stundu nobīdi paskatīties rezultātus. Ja tur ir kaut kas cits, var rakstīt sūdzību,” saka “Possible Security” vadītājs.

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