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by jacques_chester 4352 days ago
> A smart cookie could vote in such a manner as that when the information is entered into the system, it crashes it?

"Informal" votes -- ballots where the voter does not correctly fill out the ballot paper -- are rejected from the tally by the counters under supervision from scrutineers.

If you use hexadecimal, it will be rejected. If you use a very large number, it will be rejected. If you use weird unicode characters, it will be rejected. If it's anything other than a) a single [1] "above the line" or a fully filled-out ballot "below the line" comprised of numbers from 1-n where n is the number of candidates-1, it will be rejected.

If it's crashing on properly filled-out votes, there's a bigger problem.