Security News > 2020 > September > Mobile voting: Hype or reality?

For most of us, voting by anything other than a paper ballot or a voting machine is a foreign concept.

Due to the pandemic and shelter in place restrictions, various alternatives have been considered this year - in particular, voting via our mobile devices.

On paper, it might seem like COVID-19 has created the ideal opportunity to introduce voting options that utilize the millions of mobile phones and tablets in U.S. voters' hands.

Verifying the identity of the voter and their device and doing it in a way that also allows for secret ballots is a critical challenge to overcome if mobile voting is ever to become a reality.

Even if the kinks in mobile voting are worked out, how can we ensure overall trust in the system? Not only do we need to trust that our vote was cast, but that it was cast in a way that is private, secure, and for the person it was intended.

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