Expert: The U.S. election system still lacks basic encryption safeguards

ChainCatcher news, according to Decrypt, former voting machine auditor Michal Pospieszalski stated that the U.S. election system still lacks basic cryptographic safeguards to detect ballot tampering or duplication. He proposed ensuring the security of future elections and restoring public trust by adding end-to-end encryption proofs. Although these vulnerabilities were identified as early as 2006, he noted that vendors would not take action unless there was legal pressure or updated election laws.

Pospieszalski emphasized that the solution involves software rather than hardware and is based on cryptographic techniques from the 1980s. The model he proposed would include three counts: paper ballots, traditional digital tallying, and a third encrypted count.