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19 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 885 (2010-2011)
Internet Voting, Security, and Privacy

handle is hein.journals/wmbrts19 and id is 893 raw text is: INTERNET VOTING, SECURITY, AND PRIVACY Jeremy Epstein Pajama voting may be convenient. It just can't ensure your vote will count. -Mitch Trachtenberg' We don't have the technology yet to do [Internet voting] in a secure way, and we may not for a decade or more. -Ron Rivest2 A government election is something that you don't want to do over the Internet. -Ben Adida [T]he impetus to remove voting roadblocks is, we fear, causing some states to rush recklessly toward Internet voting despite the limits of today's security technology.' ABSTRACT Internet voting is an appealing concept to most voters, primarily for reasons of convenience (why can't I vote in my pajamas at a convenient time), while appealing because of the attractiveness of technology. However, Internet voting is fundamentally different from other types of online transactions such as banking or shopping. In this Article, I describe different types of Internet voting, the advantages and disadvantages from a security and privacy perspective, and provide perspective on the history and evolution of the field. * SRI International. William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal Symposium: Privacy, Democracy, and Elections, October 22, 2010. This article was prepared with support from ACCURATE: A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections, under National Science Foundation Grant No. 0524111. ' E-mail from Mitch Trachtenberg, Software Developer, to author (Oct. 11, 2010, 11:06 EST) (on file with author). 2 Alex Altman, Will Online Voting Turn Into an Election Day Debacle?, THME, Oct. 15, 2010, available athttp://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2025696,00.html (quoting Ron Rivest, computer scientist and cryptography expert). Dan Morrell, Secret Ballots, Verifiable Votes, HARv. MAG., May-June 2010, at 10 (quoting Ben Adida, inventor of Helios, an Internet voting system). ' Editorial, Hacked!, WASH. PosT, Oct. 19, 2010, at A14. 885

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