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Researchers Devise Voting System That Seems Secure, But Is Hard To Use

Posted by Soulskill on from the find-the-candidate-and-hand-them-your-vote dept.

An anonymous reader writes: According to an article in ReadWrite, a team of British and American researchers have developed a hacker resistant process for online voting called Du-Vote. It uses a credit card-sized device that helps to divide the security-sensitive tasks between your computer and the device in a way that neither your computer nor the device learns how you voted (PDF). If a hacker managed to control the computer and the Du-Vote token, he still can't change the votes without being detected.

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  1. Transparency by prefec2 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Voting must be secure, private, equal, and transparent. If the counting is done by a machine and there is no paper trail then this transparency is not realized. Nice to see that they are able to secure the transmission, but now the devices can still be tampered with. What I do not understand, why is it so important to replace the voting process with an electronic voting process. Voting is an important act in a democracy, therefore, it is also important to give it enough time and ritual to perform it.