By Sara Peters/ Posted on 10/9/2014
A new report explains that online voting in the US is a matter of "if, not when," but problems of anonymity and verifiability must be solved first.
Online elections could be a reality in the United States if the security world can figure out how to ensure both voter anonymity and vote verifiability -- two essential but "largely incompatible" goals, according to a new report from the Atlantic Council and Intel Security. The report, "Online Voting: Rewards and Risks," discusses what challenges must be solved if online voting is ever to take off in the US.
"It's not a matter of if, but of when," says Gary Davis, Chief Consumer Security Evangelist for Intel Security. "I'll go out on a limb and say within 10 years" the US will allow online voting for national elections.
Why so confident? Davis points at the progress made in banking. Trust between customer and bank is essential to financial transactions, just like trust between citizen and government when casting ballots. Breaches notwithstanding, cryptography, identity management, and other security measures have made secure online banking a reality. Couldn't the same technology be applied to online voting?
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