Why You Cant Vote Online Tuesday

A decade and a half into the web revolution, we do much of our banking and shopping online. So why can't we vote over the Internet? The answer is that voting presents specific kinds of very hard problems.

Even though some countries do it and there have been trial runs in some precincts in the United States, computer security experts at a Princeton symposium last week made clear that online voting cannot be verifiably secure, and invites disaster in a close, contentious race.

"Vendors may come and they may say they've solved the Internet voting problem for you, but I think that, by and large, they are misleading you, and misleading themselves as well," Ron Rivest, the MIT computer s…
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