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Officials check an electronic voting machine. EPA/Raminder Pal Singh

April 5, 2017

What a ballot-rigging conspiracy theory says about India’s toxic political climate

Nayanika Mathur, University of Sussex

Election results almost always come with conspiracy theories attached, but India's latest round of recriminations goes deeper than usual.

How secure is your vote? Hands with votes illustration via shutterstock.com

October 18, 2016

Securing the voting process: Four essential reads

Jeff Inglis, The Conversation

While voter fraud - despite recent allegations - is rare, how do we ensure the ballots we cast are counted accurately? If so, how? Our experts offer background and insight.

Scott Ryan has released terms of reference for an inquiry by a parliamentary committee into the 2016 federal election. Alan Porrit/AAP

September 14, 2016

Foreign donations on agenda for parliamentary inquiry

Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra

The issues of foreign donations and electronic voting will be examined by a wide-ranging parliamentary inquiry.

Seeking a peaceful handover of power between parties and political opponents. Jim Young/Reuters

September 2, 2016

Election legitimacy at risk, even without a November cyberattack

Herbert Lin, Stanford University

It's true that sophisticated hackers may be able to tilt the presidential election. But the more likely threat to democracy comes from sore losers who sow doubt about voting integrity.

Is everything on the up-and-up here? Rick Wilking/Reuters

July 29, 2016

How vulnerable to hacking is the US election cyber infrastructure?

Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

With the DNC email leak and Trump calling on Russia to hack Clinton's emails, concern about foreign meddling in the 2016 presidential election process is rising. Is e-voting the next cyber battleground?

The new vote capture system is a consequence of the recent Senate voting rule changes. AAP/Richard Wainwright

July 19, 2016

Is the new Senate vote capture system as risky as electronic voting?

Roland Wen, UNSW and Richard Buckland, UNSW

The new Senate vote capture system had to be built rapidly, with little time for design or testing, and is being operated in a way that allows only part of the process to be scrutinised.

By hand: voters use paper and pencil to cast their ballots in the 2016 Australian federal election. AAP/Paul Miller

July 7, 2016

Electronic voting may be risky, but what about vote counting?

Robert Merkel, Monash University

There's something about seeing the ballot process take place – the vote, the count – that inspires confidence. That wouldn't be the same with any electronic voting system.

About one in four Australians are skipping the polling day queues and voting early. Sunanda Creagh

April 8, 2015

Early voting hits new highs in NSW and Australia, but is it a good idea?

Peter John Chen, University of Sydney

More than 280,000 votes were cast online at the NSW election, which has been claimed as a new world record. The state's early vote also looks set to hit a new high, mirroring a trend across Australia.

Security experts discovered that the iVote practice server was vulnerable to tampering; after checking that the same weakness affected the real voting server, they alerted the authorities. Vanessa Teague and Alex Halderman

March 22, 2015

Thousands of NSW election online votes open to tampering

Vanessa Teague, University of Melbourne and J. Alex Halderman, University of Michigan

UPDATED 3PM: The NSW Electoral Commission has now publicly commented on the security flaw we uncovered. But we're concerned that it does not seem to understand the serious implications of this attack.

Top contributors

Peter John Chen
Senior Lecturer, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
Vanessa Teague
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne
Roland Wen
Visiting Fellow, UNSW
Michelle Grattan
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Robert Merkel
Lecturer in Software Engineering, Monash University
J. Alex Halderman
Director, University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society; Morris Wellman Faculty Development Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
Richard Forno
Senior Lecturer, Cybersecurity & Internet Researcher, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Richard Buckland
Professor in Computer Security, Cybercrime, and Cyberterror, UNSW
Nayanika Mathur
Lecturer and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Anthropology, University of Sussex
Herbert Lin
Senior Research Scholar for Cyber Policy and Security, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University