Rangel warns of AI risks and external interference in electronic voting, and wants 2027 elections as a test

Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel warned on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, about the security and reliability challenges that artificial intelligence and external interference pose to electronic voting. Speaking in London after meeting British counterpart Ed Miliband, he noted that while digitalization could ease voting for Portuguese citizens living abroad, it creates new risks. Rangel suggested that the 2027 Council of Portuguese Communities elections could serve as a testbed for electronic voting to evaluate how to handle these risks.