Online Voting: We Can Do It! (We Have To)

WHEN IT COMES to elections, nine of 10 security experts agree that cellulose is safer than electricity.a The best way to vote, they say, is to take the horse-and-buggy down to town on election day, mark up a paper ballot, and put it in a ballot box. The very thought of online voting is anathema. Yet, the status quo in voting is hardly secure, and online voting is inevitable. The agenda for concerned security experts should be to assure online voting is more secure than paper voting. If 60 years of computer security research cannot yield the solution, then it has been going in the wrong direction. © 2019 ACM