Counting
Phase | Process | Sub- Process | Vulnerability/Threat |
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Election Day | Counting | N/A | Destruction/modification of ballots Valid voted ballots are destroyed, invalidated or just not counted during tally. |
Election Day | Counting | N/A | Voter is unable to verify if his vote was counted: A process to verify that the vote has been counted does not exist, no printed vote receipt exists, or it cannot can be veiwed. |
Election Day | Counting | N/A | Counting takes too much time: The counting process is affected by inopportunes that were not taken into account which affects the rapidity of the counting of the ballots. |
Election Day | Counting | N/A | Miscounting: Whether intentionally or because of error, voted ballots are not counted properly. Electoral results don’t reflect the will of voters. |
Election Day | Counting | N/A | Loss of the printed votes (vote support): Printed votes used for audit count in some electronic voting machines might get lost. |
Election Day | Counting | N/A | Malfunction of systems or services in the post-voting stage: A malfunction irrecoverably destroys votes, disrupts the counting process or leads to errors in the counting process which affects the result. A malfunction disrupts the ability to generate an election or referendum report or irrecoverably destroys the report. |
Election Day | Counting | N/A | Denial-of-service against the counting process: An attacker disrupts the counting process or its services, thus the availability of the counting result is not ensured. |