 On online voting, for example, he writes "When you move from voting in person to voting at home (whether by post, by phone or over the internet) it vastly expands the scope for vote buying and coercion”, making the point that it's not just a question of whether the encryption can be cracked.In 1998, Anderson founded the Foundation for Information Policy Research, a think tank and lobbying group on information-technology policy.Anderson is also a founder of the UK-Crypto mailing list and the economics of security research domain.