Elections - Voting
Risks of Internet Voting in Political Elections
Democrats are considering the idea of using “Internet balloting” for the 2016 election, and Republicans are considering the idea. Some (incorrectly) predicted long ago that by now we would already have Internet voting, and they assumed we would have fair and honest people running the government system.
We discuss some of the key the risks to online voting, how political leaders have abused the power of their office to target political opponents, and ask should we trust them with out electronic voting records?