The vote count is not in danger despite recent hacker attacks. Parties and municipalities have been targeted by hackers, but Tuesday's election is not at risk, according to election officials.
According to the Danish news agency Ritzau, citing local media, election officials said that Tuesday's election process was not threatened after websites belonging to several parties and municipalities were hacked by pro-Russian groups in the run-up to the election.
Denmark is one of the most digitally advanced societies in the world, but in elections, voting and ballot counting are done manually. This strengthens the electoral process, according to the Interior Ministry's electoral office.
This provides a high level of robustness against IT failures or power outages, for example, and if you overdo it a little, you may end up counting votes in a narrow range.
The election results can then be calculated using a calculator, paper, and pen. It will take longer, but it won't prevent the votes from being counted, election consultant Christine Buskov says in a written comment to Ritsau.
The pro-Russian hacking group NoName057(16) wrote on social media that the group had shut down several websites in the few days leading up to the election.
This was done through distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which work by overloading websites with massive amounts of data, potentially causing them to crash.
The Danish Agency for Community Safety wrote in a press release on Monday that it was aware of the attacks.
On election day, Tuesday, the new electoral system will be tested when votes are counted at polling stations.
وخلفها يوجد مجتمع تكنولوجيا المعلومات التابع للبلديات “كومبيت”، الذي يتوقع أن تسير الأمور على ما يرام في يوم الانتخابات، وذلك وفق تصريح الرئيس التنفيذي كريستيان فينجسجارد الأسبوع الماضي لمجلة Danske Kommuner التجارية التي تصدرها جمعية البلديات الدنماركية بحسب ريتساو.
كما صرح للبلديات الدنماركية: “إن النظام الجديد يحل محل نظام عمره 30-40 عامًا، وقد بدأ ببساطة بيقين ونظرة إلى حقيقة مفادها أن العالم أصبح مكانًا مختلفًا تمامًا اليوم عما كان عليه عندما تم بناء النظام القديم”.
He added that even if the election results website were to crash as a result of cyberattacks, it would not affect the elections and their results.
وبحسب الوكالة الدنماركية فقد كان من المتوقع تزايد عدد الهجمات الإلكترونية التي سبقت الانتخابات، و”من غير المرجح أن يحاول القراصنة التأثير على الانتخابات نفسها من خلال الهجمات الإلكترونية”.
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