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when you stop to think about it it is amazing how much of our lives has moved

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online you can work a full-time job trade hundreds of thousands of dollars

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worth of stocks and even meet your soulmate all without getting out of bed

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but one of the things we still can't do over the internet is vote and i'm not

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talking about twitter polls but like real voting for things like the

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president or mayor and coroner but why

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we have a multi-trillion dollar digital economy

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that's managed online so what's so difficult about running an election

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without having to drag everyone out to a polling station well unsurprisingly one

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big issue is security online voting is subject to the same vulnerabilities as

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shopping over the internet but the concerns are actually more severe think

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about what happens if an attacker steals your credit card info when you try to

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buy something it's obviously not ideal

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but thanks to fraud protection algorithms and redundant record keeping

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such incidents can often be resolved and you can get your money back

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but this is more challenging when it comes to voting not only are records

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kept by election authorities usually quite a bit thinner but in close

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elections even a few incidents of an attacker changing votes could alter the

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results of the entire election where the outcome at least theoretically affects

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everyone who voted the stakes simply aren't that high when someone's credit

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card number gets stolen also reliably tying a ballot to an

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individual voter undermines the secret ballot system which is used by most

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democracies to help ensure that neither the government nor anyone else can

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intimidate voters or seek retribution against someone for voting a certain way

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although jurisdictions that allow voting by mail or absentee voting try to tackle

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this issue by using two envelopes to keep the votes and the voters separate

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detecting fraud in an online election may be more likely to require tying a

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ballot back to an actual voter if irregularities arise in order to verify

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who a specific person actually voted for so if we'd want to avoid this we'd have

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to come up with some new ways to fairly keep track of votes without compromising

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privacy too much but even if we do come up with such a system simply identifying

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who's actually eligible to vote through a browser could be difficult

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many places are currently grappling with just how much identification a potential

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voter should have to show when they register to vote or cast a ballot and

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moving elections online throws another wrinkle into the system

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although you could ask each person for something like a national id number

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before voting there still isn't much of a way that the authorities can know that

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you didn't sell your vote or just allow a different person to vote in your place

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biometrics have been suggested as a solution but that could prove to be very

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costly but okay Linus can't someone just go into a

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physical polling place and give someone else's name and fraudulently cast a vote

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anyway well yes they could but studies have

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shown that in-person voter fraud in developed countries is fairly uncommon

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partly because it's difficult to find a bunch of people that are willing to

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participate in such a scheme and get them to go to the polls to cheat the

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system by comparison online it would be

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a lot easier for one person running a botnet to achieve the same results which

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i guess leads us perfectly to another obstacle even if you had a super secure voting

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infrastructure and a population that's dedicated to upholding the integrity of

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their elections there's no guarantee that individual users wouldn't have vote

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altering malware on their home pcs

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plenty of voters have a very limited grasp of technology and probably

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wouldn't be able to tell if their computer had been made part of a botnet

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or if they'd fallen victim to a phishing email that would redirect them to a site

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that would submit altered votes throw in the possibility of widespread

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computer errors as we've seen with electronic voting machines and these are

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ones that aren't even directly connected to the internet plus government-run

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servers trying to accommodate a massive amount of traffic on election day

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and it isn't that surprising that most places haven't jumped on the online

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voting hype train such as it is but this isn't to say

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though that we will never figure out a good way to conduct elections online for

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example estonia is well known for holding its elections over the internet

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with its citizens using special national id cards and readers to vote from home

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their government also says it keeps a close eye on proceedings to ensure

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fairness but would this system work in a much larger

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country a research study also indicated that estonia's system is still vulnerable to

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outside attacks so the jury's kind of still out on this one

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and i don't expect it to rapidly catch on in other places anytime soon

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if we can figure it out online voting promises to not only save time and

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improve accuracy but also encourage more people to participate in civic life

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until then though i guess we'll just have to put up with standing in line on

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election day to get our i voted sticker so we can walk around with a sense of

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unwarranted self-importance afterwards

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