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Political Party's Leadership Election Hit By DDoS Attack

Posted by Soulskill on from the politics-of-the-future dept.

New submitter lyran74 writes "Saturday's electronic leadership vote for Canada's New Democratic Party was plagued by delays caused by a botnet DDoS attack, coming from over 10,000 machines. Details are still scarce, but Scytl, who provided electronic voting services, will have to build more robust systems in the future in anticipation of such attacks. Party and company officials say an audit proved the systems and integrity of the vote were not compromised."

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  1. If someone gave up and didn't vote by davidwr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Then the integrity of the election is affected even if the integrity of the ballot box is not.

    It's like if protesters blocking the streets make some voters "give up" on voting before they arrive at the polls. The ballot box's integrity is intact, but the election loses integrity.

    We can only hope that the loss of integrity was spread around evenly so the winners and vote-percentages of the losers are the same as they would have been. We can only hope, we can never know for certain.

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  2. Re:What makes it really interesting... by whisper_jeff · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It would seem to me that the current Canadian government is one of the most corrupt in the western hemisphere at the moment.

    As a proud Canadian, normally I would be outraged by a comment like that. Unfortunately, with what the Conservative party has done (manipulating the previous election) and what Harper has been doing (the list is so damn long...), I find myself entirely unable to argue against that claim... It's disgusting that I can't argue against it...