Why the article is helpful
- Explored online voting systems and countries with internet voting election options
- Authors suggested that electronic elections should not be conducted through the internet
Explored online voting systems and countries with internet voting election options while launching a $40 million project in 2009 to design an electronic voting system for its 2011 election. The system allowed repeated voting and only counted a voter’s last vote. They also used a coding system that prevented tampering by giving each voter a specific code. The author suggested that electronic elections should not be conducted through the internet.
Links to article
Olson, K., Nordhaug, H.F. (2012) Internet elections: Unsafe in any home?. Communications of the ACM, 55(8), 36. doi:10.1145/2240236.22040251