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After critically following the elections for 8 years from the outside, a hacker was employed as one of the functional administrators of the software supporting the elections. Sharing experiences of the use of election software during 7 elections (2020-2023), from local, national to European in The Netherlands.
A governmental software project with strict deadlines, and high security expectations. The software project for elections in The Netherlands is build an IT organization [owned by German local governments](https://www.regioit.de/unternehmen/zahlen-daten-fakten). More than 10.000 Java files, what can possible go wrong?
During this time multiple emergency patches were needed and incidents occur. Although at first explicitly *not* hired as a coder, within 3 months a Java code contribution was made that was unexpectedly more crucial than anticipated.
This talk will show some incidents with the election software in The Netherlands: how the software failed, and when/how it was discovered. Go over how seeing the elections from the outside, and give some history of voting computers and software. Ending with some reflecting on the future.