Americans can look to Estonia for lessons on how online voting systems can improve election integrity.
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Amid discussion of how best to conduct and tally a hotly contested election that is potentially subject to nefarious meddling, three experts explain the basics.
International observation will not insulate controversial polls – such as Tanzania’s in October – from malpractices, but will make them less likely and allow them to be exposed.
To boost inclusivity among its ranks, the House of Commons needs parliamentary reform of its voting procedures to allow electronic online voting, or e-voting, for its members.
Democrats may soon propose letting members of Congress vote by proxy during the pandemic. A legal scholar says the language the Founders used 233 years ago could allow voting remotely.
Explaining the equipment and the process by which hundreds of millions of ballots are collected and counted in India.
Online voting glitches in Ontario’s recent municipal elections show that Canada needs to develop voluntary standards on online voting.
Ensuring the integrity of democratic elections from hackers and electronic tampering, and boosting public confidence in democracy, isn’t very difficult, nor expensive.
Russian government agents allegedly penetrated US state and county election databases. Scholars of election security offer insight and recommendations about what to do now.
Researchers reveal the ways the US election system is under threat – only one of which has anything to do with Russia.
Have you ever struggled to understand exactly what to do inside a voting booth?
African democracies are embracing electronic voting far more confidently than the West.
Election results almost always come with conspiracy theories attached, but India’s latest round of recriminations goes deeper than usual.
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.
The issues of foreign donations and electronic voting will be examined by a wide-ranging parliamentary inquiry.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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Senior Research Scholar for Cyber Policy and Security, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
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Adjunct associate professor (ANU) and CEO, Thinking Cybersecurity, Australian National University
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Visiting Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Lecturer in Software Engineering, Monash University
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Director, University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society; Morris Wellman Faculty Development Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
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Principal Lecturer in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Professor in Computer Security, Cybercrime, and Cyberwar, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Anthropology, University of Sussex
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Law Professor in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Election Law, University of Memphis
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Psychology and of Computer Science, Rice University
