Secure and reliable internet voting is on the horizon. The UK’s foremost experts in electronic voting (e-voting) have published a paper that sets out the technological and societal challenges that must be overcome.
Several countries have introduced limited forms of internet voting, Estonia the first to implement permanent national online voting.
Although electronic voting was introduced in the UK Parliament for the first time because of the pandemic, providing secure online voting to all, as recommended by the UK’s Digital Democracy Commission in 2015, has proved more challenging.
The new paper, written by the Institute of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) e-voting working group whose chair is the University of Surrey’s Professor Steve Schneider. Cybersecurity experts detail the issues such as the design, deployment and operations that need to be overcome to make internet voting a reality in the UK.
Key points from the paper include:
Prof Schneider, the university’s director of the Surrey Centre for Cyber Security, said: “The cybersecurity risks and the imperative to ensure a level playing-field during a secret ballot election makes internet voting uniquely challenging. In this report, we set out what policymakers and technical experts must do to clear the significant hurdles.”
Read the full report here.
The IET’s e-voting Working Group: Steve Schneider (Chairman), Nick Coleman, Richard Crowther, Eric Dubuis, Aggelos Kiayias, Dave Palmer, Jordi Puiggali, Awais Rashid, Mark Ryan, Barbara Simons and Thomas Zacharias.
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Sue Warner
October 27, 2020 at 10:53 pm
We can all access our tax records securely online, I really don’t understand why voting online is so much more complicated.
Seems to me that those in charge are dragging their feet.