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Oct/Nov 2016 Edition
The Security Challenge of e-Voting
As threats become more sophisticated, and always-connected electronic voting machines become more widely used,
tampering with voting results is a risk that is pretty easy to
predict will increase over time.
Guest Editorial by Anthony Giandomenico, Senior Security
Strategist and Office of the CTO at Fortinet
Countries where open elections occur have often
developed arcane rules and processes for casting,
collecting, and tabulating votes, in part because
counting and managing votes is so time-consuming, but also because different groups, especially
those with power, have strongly vested interests
not only in the outcome, but in the process itself.
In the US, for example, Americans don’t actually
vote for Presidential candidates, but for slates of
“electors” pledged to support those candidates.
In fact, the US President is actually chosen by an
Electoral College of 538 individuals, and needs a
majority of 270 votes to win.
Many Americans are completely unaware of this
process, nor that once their states’ electors are
chosen they don’t actually have to vote for the candidate they were elected to cast their vote for.
But among those who understand the Electoral
College process, a growing number feel it’s time
for a change to one person - one vote popular
election model.
We have the technology, they argue, to put in place
an electronic voting system that would allow for a
popular vote to take place, and for results to be
tabulated immediately.
Not so fast. There are serious security issues surrounding online elections that will need to be sorted out before something like this can become a
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