Internet Voting - Wishful Thinking?

"Internet voting is the wave of the future and the way to save money while increasing voter participation, especially by young people." Such opinions, combined with appeals on behalf of voters with disabilities, have created strong pressure to adopt Internet voting. Consequently, Internet voting is currently being deployed in some states and considered by others. The talk will address some of the security threats to Internet voting.

Barbara Simons is a former President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She is the only woman to have received the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award from the College of Engineering of U.C. Berkeley, where she earned her Ph.D. in computer science. An expert on electronic voting, she published Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count?, a book on voting machines co-authored with Douglas Jones.

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