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Darknet Diaries · September 15, 2025 · 65m

Hacking the Vote: Election Security in 2025

An examination of election security vulnerabilities, from voting machines to voter registration databases to social media influence operations.

Canon

Attackers do not need to change votes. They only need to create doubt about the process. Creating doubt is infinitely cheaper than proving integrity, exploiting the fundamental falsehood asymmetry.
Election security professionals cannot make elections perfectly secure. They can control paper trails, audit procedures, and monitoring systems — the controllable elements of defense.