Internet Voting: Concerns and Solutions

  • Authors:
  • C-K. Wu;R. Sankaranarayana

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CW '02 Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Cyber Worlds (CW'02)
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Internet voting systems, catering to different requirements,have been widely implemented and used. Some havebeen successful, while others have experienced unexpectedproblems. This paper will overview the concerns of usingInternet voting and try to give some solutions. Tradeoffsbetween the loss and gain of employing Internet votingare also addressed. A simple protocol is designed to showthat technical problems as identified by publications in theliterature can be solved fairly easily, though some of themseem subtle. This study will reveal that the main concernswith adopting Internet voting for critical elections are notthe cryptographic tools, instead they include hardware andsoftware reliability, and social and political issues. Afterdiscussing the possible concerns about Internet votingand possible solutions or comments, we propose the stepsto enable Internet voting to be adopted even for criticalelections.