scope:

This Recommendation identifies security threats to online voting systems that use distributed ledger technology (DLT) based on telecommunication or information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure. This Recommendation focuses on online voting systems with databases (DBs) based on client or server and private distributed ledger networks (DLNs) based on telecommunication or ICT infrastructure.

This Recommendation does not consider paper-based electronic voting systems (e.g., punch card voting machines) or direct-recording electronic voting systems.