A letter signed by security experts reiterates the insecurity of internet voting systems and warns against their implementation in elections. The letter highlights the lack of secure technology for internet voting and criticizes the promotion of such systems by organizations like the Mobile Voting Foundation.
No matter how many times we say it, the idea comes back again and again. Hopefully, this letter will hold back the tide for at least a while longer. Executive summary: Scientists have understood for many years that internet voting is insecure and that there is no known or foreseeable technology that can make it secure. Still, vendors of internet voting keep claiming that, somehow, their new system is different, or the insecurity doesn’t matter. Bradley Tusk and his Mobile Voting Foundation keep touting internet voting to journalists and election administrators; this whole effort is misleading and dangerous. I am one of the many signatories.