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Electronic mail voting system passes intrusion test Keystone-Sda For four weeks, professional ethical hackers have tried to violate the e -mail voting system.There were 142'300 accesses and 8'800 attacks, but nobody managed to violate the digital urn. 1 minute (Keystone-ATS) The mail reports today in a press release, adding that a hacker, rewarded with 500 francs, was able to find an error in the system, but that has not affected general safety.It was the blockage of an electoral certificate after five failed access attempts, but the company specified that this was wanted. According to the yellow giant, this shows that "security has the utmost priority in electronic vot", it is still read in the note.Test of the genre are moreover prescribed by the law and are used to increase safety and transparency and to increase trust in electronic voting. As for the origin of the hackers, the most active country was found to be France (37%of the attempted intrusions), followed by the United States (9.4%) and Switzerland (5.8%).In all, there were activities from about 2'600 IP addresses, of 54 different nations.