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Daily News Daily News · 24/04/2018
· Politics

Election 2018 – LMP: Election IT system in hands of small circle

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Budapest, 2018. április 5. Szél Bernadett, az LMP miniszterelnök-jelöltje (b) és Demeter Márta, a párt országgyûlési képviselõje az LMP Több nõt a politikába! címû, utcai akcióval egybekötött sajtótájékoztatóján a budapesti Móricz Zsigmond körtéren 2018. április 5-én. MTI Fotó: Szigetváry Zsolt

The opposition LMP party has questioned the integrity of the computer system and administrative apparatus responsible for the handling of Hungary’s election data, insisting the entire system was compromised by “serious security holes”.

After assessing the network of institutions, firms and the technical background for administering the April 8 general election with the help of IT experts, data analysts and lawyers, Bernadett Szél, LMP’s co-leader, and Márta Demeter, a party lawmaker, on Monday told journalists there were “shocking interconnections” between people operating the election IT system and a narrow circle of overseers which left the entire set-up open to manipulation.

Demeter insisted the election’s administration network showed signs of being set up “according to the logic of organised crime”.

demeter Márta MP of Hungary LMP green party

Márta Demeter, photo: MTI

The National Election Office (NVI) and the interior ministry are investigating a halt to the operation of the election system, she said, adding that no satisfactory answers to their many questions had been forthcoming.

Demeter said “key figure” Krisztina Kertész Demény, a “side-kick” of Sándor Pintér, the interior minister, had held former senior management positions at Central Data Processing, a company operating under the interior ministry, as well as at the Registry and Election Office and its successor, where she had a role in a public procurement tender involving Idom 2000 Consulent, founded by three lawyers connected to the minister.

IdomSoft, an Idom offshoot which operates the national electoral system, was accused of election fraud in April 2010, she noted. This company was formerly headed by election office’s current IT specialist and head, Géza Malics. Idom was later nationalised, she added.

Among the security risks, she noted that Morocco has the basic source code for an earlier version of the integrated electoral system. And whereas LMP has no evidence in its possession that the current system is a further development of the earlier one, this can be assumed, she insisted.

The LMP officials also mentioned the role in the election of György Vertan, whose companies have won public tenders. One of his firms operates the ruling Fidesz party’s website, they noted.

Another company, Tigra Business Intelligence, is connected to Kertész Demény, and it has developed programs for the NVI.

If election data have indeed been manipulated, then it is likely that Tigra was responsible, the LMP politicians insisted.

Szél also said there were serious distorting effects apparent in her own constituency in the conduct of the election. She has therefore turned to the Kúria, Hungary’s supreme court, with the aim of securing a repeat election there.

Source: MTI

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1 Comment

  1. Martinmoure says:
    25/04/2018 at 05:53

    Hellow my name is Martinmoure. Wery good article! Thx 🙂

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