Don't Trust Us (hackerhotel2025)

In The Netherlands, everyone can trust the outcome of elections. That is our mission as The Dutch electoral council. But you don't have to trust us to be able to trust the outcome of elections. Anyone can verify the results and in this presentation, we aim to explain to you which security measures have been taken in the election process here in The Netherlands to make sure you can trust the outcome of our elections, without having to trust us. On average, we have one election each year. But not everyone knows how elections in our country are protected against security risks. We know we don't use voting machines anymore, but we do use software. We are currently working on new software. In this presentation you will learn: - Why the software we use doesn't have to be able to resist every type of "cyber" attack. - How voters can verify the results of elections either physically or from the comfort of their computer from home. - Why voting machines or internet voting are not currently a real alternative worth considering. Licensed to the public under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 about this event: https://pretalx.hackerhotel.nl/2025/talk/DHTDEM/