Image: Australian Electoral Commission.
New collaborative research between ANU and Indiana University is aiming to make democracies more resilient at a time when they are under increasing strain. One key finding is that the US should adopt aspects of Australia's voting system, which is less vulnerable to cyber-hacks. Australia's 'old fashioned' pencil and paper ballot system and its central electoral body make it more secure in the era of hacks and interference. The findings came out of collaborative workshop titled Making democracy harder to hack held recently in Washington DC . Security expert Professor Matthew Sussex of the ANU National Security College at the Crawford School organised the ANU part of the delegation. He said while Australia's pencil and paper voting system could be seen as archaic, it was very difficult to be hacked. "The US has privatised the process of counting votes and tabulating data.
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