We've heard a lot about alleged cyber attacks and interference in elections over the pas few months - the surprise outcome from the US elections, the French avoiding online voting for their current Presidential elections and now the NCSC being galvanised to avoid the upcoming UK general elections being compromised (see article above).
You can't help but think that this is only the start of the these type of attacks, but what can be done to prevent them? And will we always have to cast a vote by visiting a polling station and casting our vote with paper and pencil (as we do in the UK)? Can we ever move to electronic voting whilst maintaining the integrity of our democratic systems?
A solution is to simply allow each person who votes online be able to go back and check later that their vote was counted for the correct things. Give them a 2-day time window to go back and double check, before the results are locked down. This whole issue underscores the importance of maintaining very secure websites though. I have a few websites myself, and I always take professional advice for security. You can get it in a lot of places, like SecuritySpend.me, or other such web services.
A solution is to simply allow each person who votes online be able to go back and check later that their vote was counted for the correct things. Give them a 2-day time window to go back and double check, before the results are locked down. This whole issue underscores the importance of maintaining very secure websites though. I have a few websites myself, and I always take professional advice for security. You can get it in a lot of places, like SecuritySpend.me, or other such web services.
