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Internet Voting Remains a Security Risk for Elections
Despite repeated warnings, the debate over online voting continues. A recent letter underscores a critical point: scientists have consistently found internet voting to be insecure, and no foreseeable technology promises a fix.
Executive summary: Scientists have understood for many years that internet voting is insecure and that there is no known or foreseeable technology that can make it secure. Still, vendors of internet voting keep claiming that, somehow, their new system is different, or the insecurity doesn’t matter. Bradley Tusk and his Mobile Voting Foundation keep touting internet voting to journalists and election administrators; this whole effort is misleading and dangerous.
I am one of the many signatories.
