Voatz, a key partner with Digital Democracy Project, developed an online voting solution for overseas Mexican citizens using AWS infrastructure, significantly improving both security and scalability for the 2024 federal elections. Their implementation leveraged a five-layer defense strategy combining AWS Shield Advanced, Lambda@Edge via CloudFront, encrypted EC2 server environments, AWS Key Management Service, and queuing with Amazon SQS to shield against 28 million malicious actions, including large-scale DDoS attacks, while accelerating encrypted vote tallying from 18 hours to just 21 minutes and cutting operational costs by 80%. The approach also included biometric and multi-factor authentication for voter verification and cryptographic protocols ensuring verifiable vote integrity. Following this deployment, turnout among overseas voters increased by more than 50%, and Voatz continues to automate manual ballot processing tasks using Amazon Rekognition for further efficiency gains[1].

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[1] Creating a Five-Layer Defense Strategy Using AWS Shield

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