Governments everywhere: The response Maarten received from the CISO should be a model for security response. Everything else with the Dutch government may be a tyrannical horror (I don't know) but this published response was correct.
A lot of things are better off by being made digital. Voting/elections is not one of them. It lowers the bar for fraud and interference.
Question to any HNers who support electronic voting - do you have any criticisms of Tom Scott’s (two) videos against electronic voting?
Videos - https://youtu.be/LkH2r-sNjQs?si=INtv6_sr7_V5oxh7 (3 years old) & https://youtu.be/w3_0x6oaDmI?si=vwx5xpqX3i1SVqVN (8 years old).
(Maybe excluding the “use electronic machines for quick results and have paper votes to for a slower, “official” result” argument.)
We have the technology today for fully auditable and transparent, yet completely anonymous, voting. One of these days we should adopt it.
This post is confusingly mistitled - the word 'voting' does not appear anywhere in the article and the software is not involved in the process of actual voting which is done on paper. Gooogle translate seems to do a decent job of this
https://www.kiesraad.nl/verkiezingen/osv-en-eml