It also adds the idea that a lot of paper dismissal is being made, so making use of an electronic voting system would help a lot to preserve the environment, such as the speed of vote counting, speed of voters and the elimination of long queues.
In fact, digital voting mechanisms can relieve more than one and an entire population. But (there are always 'BUTS'), is it totally safe? Is it safe that a virtual vote can be considered valid? Is it safe that there are honest people who never threaten the safety and integrity of each of the votes? And not to mention availability, because if the digital voting service goes down, we are fried and scrambled.
In Columbia, a U.S. district, a pilot is being developed in which absentee voters would be allowed to cast their ballots, as well as encouraging citizens to evaluate the safety of the pilot system.
The system is based on an open source developed in collaboration with TrustTheVote. It works with the famous Ruby framework and is mounted on an Apache server with a MySQL database.
Absentee voters will receive a letter asking them to visit a page http://www.dcboee.us/DVM/; they will be given a 16-digit PIN. The system offers voters two options:
One sentence reads: "A vulnerability is as limited as you want it to be" and this applies this time. A small vulnerability has been found, which, no matter how small, can cause very large problems.
The vulnerability consists of the way the system processes uploaded ballots is poorly validated. The problem was confirmed with a test installation of the web application, and the following issues were encountered:
This is just a digital voting mechanism, new mechanisms can be created, other methods, other ways of implementing digital votes, but there will always be new gaps, new vulnerabilities, new flaws, new ways and new methods of HACKING THE SYSTEM.
I am not saying that this type of solutions should not be implemented, moreover, I say the opposite, both Peru and other nations must already implement this solution that is necessary for the well-being of us as well as the planet, but we must try to minimize the margin of horror in the computer systems that are implemented in this type of events.
For more information visit The Trust Vote. Organization that seeks to digitize this type of events of great magnitude, such as the elections of a country.
Source: Cholohack
Authors: Computer Security News
