tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402192780197352199.post1509500519936254590..comments2024-03-28T00:25:05.731-07:00Comments on Future of Social Network: Internet votingJae Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02867283326328627947noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402192780197352199.post-89019804837597485822012-02-21T21:52:55.883-08:002012-02-21T21:52:55.883-08:00Thank you for thoughtful comment. I too am hopefu...Thank you for thoughtful comment. I too am hopeful that we'll solve internet voting problem soon. It seems that there can be many approximations to entirely on-line voting system, such as part online and part paper approach. Key would be to make the voting accessible to many more who does not exercise their right today for one reason or another.Jae Kimhttp://www.futureofsocialnetwork.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3402192780197352199.post-76934977656307050472012-02-21T13:48:40.797-08:002012-02-21T13:48:40.797-08:00Jae - You're right that internet voting is not...Jae - You're right that internet voting is not an easy problem. Every voting system, internet voting included, should be held to the highest standards. Voting is the foundation of a healthy democracy and it's critical that our elections are accurate and trusted. Unfortunately, our current election systems are too often inaccurate and untrusted. These problems are well known among votnig experts and even the general public but change has been slow to come. <br /><br />Secure internet voting, in the long term, may offer solutions to some of these problems but research and development is at a standstill because of the deep concerns from computer scientists and others. I have great respect for Ron Rivest but I don't think the prospects for internet voting are quite as bad as he makes out. To be sure, internet voting is a technical challenge of the highest order, but it is almost certainly not, as Dr. Rivest has often said, impossible. This kind of rhetoric may be useful by highly quotable and it may even be useful in keeping insecure internet voting deployments at bay but it may do so to the detriment of legitimate long term research on the subject. <br /><br />As to Rivest's comments on the impossibility of internet voting, I've transcribed some of them here and contrasted his comments with those of Astro Teller: https://plus.google.com/100448146076161321063/posts/aUcZyXLPwP9 <br /><br />Each of us should judge for ourselves whether Rivest's impossibles are indeed impossible or whether they are technical hurdles that will be overcome with the right mix of innovation and determination.Restart Democracyhttp://twitter.com/RstartDemocracynoreply@blogger.com