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Posted: Wednesday, 04 November 2009 9:33AM
Security expert: no way to secure Internet voting
John Cody Reporting
WBBM Newsradio 780
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CHICAGO (WBBM) -- An Internet security expert says there's no way Internet voting can reliably replace paper ballots to ease the expense of election day.
John Hopkins University computer science professor Avi Rubin spoke one day after Lake County, Ind., sat out a transit referendum because county commissioners didn't have a spare half million dollars to fund the election.
Professor Rubin says there are several problems with Internet voting. He says voters do not know if their votes have been counted, if the vote was private, if others cast votes in the name of someone else.
He says it's just not possible to secure elections property.
Rubin is author of the book "Brave New Ballot".
He says there's no way to tell if a voting system has been hacked, if someone is watching the votes roll in.
The ultimate problem, he says, is one of authentication: there's just no guaranteed way to tell who is who at either end of the voting connection.
Rubin says banking transactions are fine on the Internet because there's a back-office trail that can always be followed. But he says there's no secure way to ensure whether the person casting or counting a private ballot, is who they claim to be.
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