[de] E-Voting CH: Prof. A. Appel: "Von Hand" ist einzig sichere Methode

"Der aktuelle Stand der IT-Security-Wissenschaften lässt uns ... auf absehbare Zeit zum Schluss kommen, dass bei Wahlen Papierstimmzettel, die von Hand ausgefüllt ... nachgezählt ..., die einzig sichere Methode sind ..."

"... Eine Schwachstelle, die es Hackern ermöglicht, Schadsoftware auf Tausenden von Geräten von Wählern zu installieren."

https://www.inside-it.ch/e-voting-reihe-wie-sicher-ist-sicher-genug-20230328

#onlinevoting #evoting #ictsecurity #infosec #security

[de] E-Voting CH: Prof. A. Appel: "Von Hand" ist einzig sichere Methode

"Der aktuelle Stand der IT-Security-Wissenschaften lässt uns ... auf absehbare Zeit zum Schluss kommen, dass bei Wahlen Papierstimmzettel, die von Hand ausgefüllt ... nachgezählt ..., die einzig sichere Methode sind ..."

"... Eine Schwachstelle, die es Hackern ermöglicht, Schadsoftware auf Tausenden von Geräten von Wählern zu installieren."

https://www.inside-it.ch/e-voting-reihe-wie-sicher-ist-sicher-genug-20230328

#onlinevoting #evoting #ictsecurity #infosec #security

[en] Online voting provider paid for academic research in attempt to sway U.S. lawmakers

According to Cyberscoop, "Democracy Live [a voting technology company] directed academic research aimed at demonstrating its product's security and used that material in lobbying campaigns."

https://cyberscoop.com/democracy-live-research-online-voting/

#onlinevoting #evoting #ictsecurity #infosec #security #democracylive

What're we going to do to convince young folks it's worth voting in this year's national election here in Aotearoa NZ? (#onlinevoting is not an acceptable suggestion)

@Kugg indeed. And perhaps a bunch of case studies on how completely idiotic #onlinevoting has been shown to be everywhere it's been tried. @pettter

@zl2tod agreed. A necessary (but no where near sufficient) condition of an future #onlinevoting system is that it's publicly owned, and the code fully open source, ideally #Copyleft licensed. @leighelse @va2lam @Smrki @fmarier

@richardh yes - #onlinevoting has most of the same fundamental flaws as postal voting, like coercion, and vote buying (where someone pays you on getting proof how you voted - if you can prove to someone else how you voted, the system's broken). Add to that undetectable fraudulent voting by compromising either the clients or the server, and you're onto a guaranteed loser. Handmarked ballots in scrutineered polling stations is the highest viable tech we have. @leighelse @va2lam @Smrki @fmarier

These people continue to be oblivious and/or advised by idiots. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/484105/online-voting-civics-education-key-to-turnout-turnaround #onlinevoting is *not* a valid answer.

The online voting platform that was used by Italy's #FiveStarMovement to select the candidates for the 2013 parliamentary elections didn't take account of human decision heuristics and cognitive shortcuts, research shows.

Candidates were more likely to attract votes if they appeared towards the top of the screen and if they appeared more likeable from the self-uploaded picture.

https://blog.experientia.com/voting-fast-and-slow/

#Behavioralsciences #onlinevoting #participatorydemocracy

I got a flyer today reminding me to vote in the King Conservation District online election. Tried to do so twice today and got an error both times. Not a great experience. I’ll try tomorrow on my computer. But this is another reason CD elections need to be on the ballot with other contests, not run separately. Anyway, fellow #KingCounty residents, don’t forget to vote — if you can! https://kingcd.org/about/board-of-supervisors/elections-and-appointments/ #WAElex #voting #OnlineVoting #OnlineElection #election #elections #Seattle

Meine tierische Unterstützung bei der #Mitgliederversammlung der #VgWort. Hoffentlich klappt's so mit dem #OnlineVoting. #kitten #Babykatze

This is potentially of interest to all the folks who say "well, we bank online, so surely we must be able to vote online!"... https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/09/warren_wells_fargo_zelle_fraud #onlinevoting #rampant #banking #fraud

I posted this on the birbsite, too:

There're only 3 types of folks who support #onlinevoting. Those who:
1. don't understand voting (but have unfounded 'faith' in technology),
2. hate democracy, &/or
3. have an online voting system to sell. Poor sods. 2/2

On the topic of #onlinevoting - still seeing people on birbsite with major reckons that 'because we can bank on line, we *must* be able to vote online"... These are non-technical people who, have unbounded (blind) faith in technical people to solve all problems... and they're adept at complete rejecting those very same technical people when they tell them quite emphatically "your faith is misguided. It can't be done." Humanity is doomed. Blind faith is not a virtue, it's a character flaw.

In 2015, my friend @kayakr@twitter.com brilliantly characterised #onlinevoting as a "tantalizing mirage" as we encouraged the Chch Council to abandon its ambition to adopt online voting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQe2fKJZd2Q&t=210s It's still true today. A healthy NZ democracy needs us to follow these steps: https://thespinoff.co.nz/local-elections-2022/10-10-2022/a-10-step-plan-to-reverse-the-absolute-shambles-of-collapsing-local-turnout and abandon the idea of online voting until the info sec people say it's a good idea & tech literacy has expanded to the point that lay people can understand it. And don't call us, we'll call you.

Many Ontario municipalities using online voting despite lack of provincial standards | CBC News https://bit.ly/3rIpeGw #AMO #OnlineVoting #Barrie #TelephoneVoting #Elections #Democracy #MunicipalElections #onpoli

Here's an interesting research paper explaining the impact of #onlinevoting on participation in #Estonia... https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221547555_Online_participation_in_Estonia_Active_voting_low_engagement

Seems to me a good acid test for distinguishing folks who think of themselves as 'technologists' (e.g. CIOs, pundits, journos) vs. people who actually feel compelled to build stuff, cut code, and live and breath tech is to see how they feel about #onlinevoting.

Lots of folks invoke Estonia when talking up #onlinevoting. They don't realise that Estonia's online voting system has holes in it you could drive a bus through. They're documented (by an internat'l team of infosec specialists) here: https://estoniaevoting.org #notonmywatch

Plucky little Estonia is often held up as a global success story for #onlinevoting... but is it such a innovative pathfinder? This team of international computer security experts set up a website on which they report their findings on Estonia's miracle system... https://estoniavoting.org tl;dr Estonia definitely shouldn't be doing online voting, especially not with their current system.