
Originally Posted by
DiscoMick
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I actually think online voting could reduce fraud in elections by cutting the 'vote early and vote often' factor out as occurs with paper rolls where people can tour several polling booths and get their name crossed off repeatedly.
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Have another think about that! For internet voting to be as secure as paper voting (including an audit trail to be able to check afterwards whether it really was secure) a minimum requirement is to be able to show that all the links between the voter and the AEC result are secure and correctly saving the audit trail.
This would include showing that every bit of software, from every voter's device operating system, the browser they use, the internet routers etc along the route to the AEC, and the AEC software itself, are all free from malware, backdoors etc, and actually do what they claim to do in all circumstances!
This requirement is virtually impossible to meet, ever. I can hear you say "we do it for banking"; yes, but banking software includes an audit trail, and individuals are going to notice discrepancies pretty quickly - by contrast, with voting, once you vote, there is no way of knowing whether that vote was counted in the totals the way you voted!
While paper voting is by no means perfect, I cannot see how a practical internet system could come close as far as security goes.
John
John
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