The Philippine government has called on hackers to hack the online voting system. This system will be tested during the mock election from July 10 to July 30. The Philippines and some other countries are trying to repeat the success of Estonia, which was the first in the world to hold full-fledged Internet elections .
The online voting system for the Philippines was developed by the Spanish company Scytl Consortium and cost $ 452,000. During the test, 26,893 registered voters will respond to the online questionnaire, which should simulate the process of selecting candidates for these elections.
The system developers and the Philippine authorities turned to the International Organization of Electoral Systems with a request to involve “professional hackers” in testing the online system. The Spaniards are confident that their development is completely reliable and will withstand any attacks. The computer system is also being implemented for online voting in the USA, Switzerland and Belgium. ')
The hackers themselves believe that any system can be hacked and have already begun to joke , what the final results of the voting in the Philippines will be like: “Ferdinand Marcos was elected for the next presidential term with three trillion votes.The second place went to D4v1d 3. P3t3rs0n with just two trillion votes, and the third came Nikolay Socrates from St. Petersburg with a half trillion ”.