Electronic and Internet Voting (The Threat of Internet Voting in Public Elections)

Google Tech Talk January 20, 2011 Presented by Dr. David Jefferson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. ABSTRACT In the last decade the administration of public elections in the United States has become increasingly computerized, leading to great concern in the security community about the security, reliability, privacy, and auditability of electronic voting systems. Although in the last few years there has been substantial progress, against great resistance, in raising the consciousness of state officials about the security vulnerabilities associated with computerized voting, recently the idea of Internet voting, ie using private computers or other devices to cast electronic ballots that are transported over the Internet has become increasingly attractive to legislators and election officials. In this talk we argue that Internet voting is much more dangerous than other forms of electronic voting because of the possibility that anyone on Earth, including a foreign nation state, can attack an Internet election from a remote position of safety, and with the possibility of changing the election outcome without ever being discovered. The number of attack modes is enormous, and the prospects for defense extremely weak. Last October the District of Columbia fielded an Internet voting system for an open test, allowing anyone to try it out or attempt to attack it. This test was to be the final hurdle before the system was put to use in the 2010 general election in November …
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