Lecture on Internet Voting | Berkeley

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“I can bank online; why can’t I vote online?”

“Internet voting is the wave of the future and the way to save money while increasing voter participation, especially by young people.”

Such opinions, combined with appeals on behalf of voters with disabilities, have created strong pressure to adopt Internet voting. In the U.S. there is also concern about facilitating voting for members of the military and civilians living abroad. Consequently, Internet voting is currently being deployed in some states and considered by others. Similar patterns exists in other countries, such as Australia and Canada.

The talk will address some of the security threats to Internet voting. If there is time, the speaker will also touch on online voter registration, online ballot marking systems, and computerized voting in general.

An expert on electronic voting, Dr. Barbara Simons published Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count?, a book on voting machines co-authored with Douglas Jones. She was appointed to the Board of Advisors of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission in 2008 by Sen. Harry Reid, and she co-authored the report that led to the cancellation of Department of Defense’s Internet voting project (SERVE) in 2004 because of security concerns. She was a member of the National Workshop on Internet Voting, convened by President Clinton, that conducted one of the first studies of Internet Voting and produced a report in 2001. She co-authored the July 2015 report of the U.S. Vote Foundation entitled The Future of Voting: End-to-End Verifiable Internet Voting. She is Board Chair of Verified Voting.

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