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Putin's online vote on an unlicensed Windows PC revives the question of internet voting security

An official Kremlin clip shows Vladimir Putin casting his ballot online in the State Duma elections, with an "Activate Windows" watermark visible in the corner of a Dell machine.

A watermark is a licensing state rather than evidence of compromise, though it does say something about how the endpoint was prepared for a televised act of voting. T

he larger issue is the ballot path itself, since computer scientists call internet voting insecure with no foreseeable technology able to fix it.

Would you trust a ballot cast from an ordinary personal computer?

Posted Sep 21, 2026, 6:26 PM UTC

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