  Pakistan recently conducted small-scale trials of a remote Internet voting
system for overseas citizens. In this contribution, we report on the
experience: we document the unique combination of sociopolitical, legal, and
institutional factors motivating this exercise. We describe the system and it's
reported vulnerabilities, and we also highlight new issues pertaining to
materiality. If this system is deployed in the next general elections, as seems
likely, this development would constitute the largest enfranchised diaspora in
the world. Our goal in this paper, therefore, is to provide comprehensive
insight into Pakistan's experiment with Internet voting, emphasize outstanding
challenges, and identify directions for future research.

Computers and Society;Cryptography and Security