The Conservative Party of Great Britain postponed for a week and a half the beginning of the postal voting to choose the new prime minister because of the risk of hacking.
This is reported by the British newspaper The Telegraph.
The vote for the new prime minister was postponed after the British Government Communications Centre (GCHQ), which is responsible for information security of the government and the country's armed forces, warned that hackers could interfere with the vote and change its results.
In addition, because of the hacker threat in Britain have changed the voting procedure.
It is noted that the Conservative Party was forced to cancel the original plans to allow you to change your choice in the voting process. Now the unique code of each member of the party will be deactivated immediately after he gave his vote, that is, his decision cannot be changed.
The Telegraph reports that mail-in ballots, which were to begin arriving for Conservative Party members on Monday, have not yet been mailed out.
As a reminder, earlier it became known that another round of elections for the future leader of the Conservative Party and the Prime Minister was completed in Britain.
In the final, former finance minister Rishi Sunak and current Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will compete for the seat of prime minister.
