Why Online Voting Is a Danger to Democracy
I have a way to make it better.  I think combining old-fashioned checks and balances, with technology controls can make online voting about as secure as it is today (maybe more) and anonymous.<p>To make it anonymous, its really just a password.  When a user registers to vote, they create an online account.  On the days that a user votes, they log into their account and create a ballot.  They then create a password for the ballot.  This password hashed with a salt, and than hashed with their registration id becomes the unique id of the ballot.  This way, at any time a user can login and view their vote... but that vote is not reversible to the voter.<p>Now for the checks and balances.  3rd party non-governmental parties should have a real-time replication of all data. (it&#x27;s like an exit poll, but more reliable).   Any time a registered voter creates a ballot, 2 things happen.  An email is sent to the record holder, and a mail is sent to the address on record.  Combine this with a public viewable record of all votes + registered voters who voted online (this information is already public) we should have a good idea at what business is going on.<p>Perhaps we can&#x27;t prevent hackers, but this should be sufficient to know if a hack occurred.  Of course, all software should be open source, so we can continue to make it more secure.<p>I think it&#x27;s more secure than what is available today because today, I can&#x27;t look at what is on public record as my vote.  If someone changed it after I cast it... I&#x27;d never know.<p>If I knew someone would use it, i&#x27;d write the software.