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    From Nick@ddantgwyn@mail.bg to soc.culture.bulgaria on Thu Jan 22 17:00:37 2026
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    Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections
    January 16, 2026 rCo by Andrew Appel

    Executive summary

    Scientists have understood for many years that internet voting is
    insecure and that there is no known or foreseeable technology that can
    make it secure. Still, vendors of internet voting keep claiming that,
    somehow, their new system is different, or the insecurity doesnrCOt matter. Bradley Tusk and his Mobile Voting Foundation keep touting internet
    voting to journalists and election administrators; this whole effort is misleading and dangerous.

    Part I. All internet voting systems are insecure. The insecurity is
    worse than a well-run conventional paper ballot system, because a very
    small number of people may have the power to change any (or all) votes
    that go through the system, without detection. This insecurity has been
    known for years; every internet voting system yet proposed suffers from
    it, for basic reasons that cannot be fixed with existing technology.

    Part II. Internet voting systems known as rCLEnd-to-End Verifiable
    Internet VotingrCY are also insecure, in their own special ways.

    Part III. Recently, Tusk announced an E2E-VIV system called
    rCLVoteSecure.rCY It suffers from all the same insecurities. Even its developers admit that in their development documents. Furthermore,
    VoteSecure isnrCOt a complete, usable product, itrCOs just a rCLcryptographic corerCY that someone might someday incorporate into a usable product.

    Conclusion. Recent announcements by Bradley TusksrCOs Mobile Voting Foundation suggest that the development of VoteSecure somehow makes
    internet voting safe and appropriate for use in public elections. This
    is untrue and dangerous. All deployed Internet voting systems are
    unsafe, VoteSecure is unsafe and isnrCOt even a deployed voting system,
    and there is no known (or foreseeable) technology that can make Internet voting safe.

    rCa

    https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/01/16/internet-voting-is-insecure-and-should-not-be-used-in-public-elections/

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