Timeline for Are there reasonably secure online voting implementations e.g. for student council elections?
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| Jan 31, 2016 at 11:08 | comment | added | simbo1905 | Not sure vote selling or duress can be solved by the technical implementation of capturing the vote. With respect to stealing vote by hacking he college server I explained that is underwritten by the college who will dispute it with authority else investigation and prosecute; then can real the emails and verify with the person who held the account that they mean to vote that way. Nothing is perfect but these simple things are far better than students attempting to implement their own custom solution. | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 13:38 | comment | added | fgrieu♦ | I like the first two paragraphs, except for not mentioning the possibility of vote selling, or vote under duress. $\;$ But how is any of the proposed "ways to solve your problem" keeping individual votes convincingly secret including to the organizers of the vote, and avoiding gross fraud count by the organizers (or allegations of that)? What if the college email imap/pop service is hacked, unread emails with the unique ID collected shortly before vote closing, and rogue votes casts using that? What about mere allegations of that? And so on. | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 10:34 | comment | added | simbo1905 | No up vote? "Thank you" had a button here on stackexchange :-) | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 10:32 | comment | added | kei1aeh5quahQu4U | Thanks for the answer. Good points! LDAP or SAML (Shibboleth) are possible. Helios and Agora Voting employ peer-reviewed encryption that allows anyone to verify the encryption - but it's rather a complicated process and the majority of students are in non-technical fields. The social engineering "attack" is something I've overlooked and a very valid concern. | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 9:05 | history | edited | simbo1905 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 27, 2016 at 8:59 | history | edited | simbo1905 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 27, 2016 at 8:54 | history | answered | simbo1905 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |