Internet and Black Box Voting Security
In the United States voting is a quintessential right of all non-felon (some prior felons can vote) adults. Voting helped create the Republic and all of it’s warts and scars. But how secure is your vote?
Internet voting has not caught on yet, which is a good thing. Imagine sitting behind your computer and casting a vote for a Senator or the President only to find out that you were not connected to the correct server or that your vote was being changed before it ever got to the other server computer. Imagine buying and selling Internet votes on the black market. It can happen folks.
Even if you use a DRE (Direct Recording Electronic) device to record your vote some questions arise. Is the software recording my vote correctly? Can I get proof that I voted and what assurances do I have that my vote (and all the other votes on the machine) are secure? According to Wikipedia, Black box voting signifies voting on voting machines which do not disclose how they operate such as with closed source or proprietary operations. This is a scary thought that our voting power can be taken away from us right from under our noses. Where is the protest? Are people complacent? There should be a group called VLM (Voting Lives Matter).
For some insight on Black Box Voting head over to Black Box Voting.