In fact, online voting is such a dangerous idea that computer scientists and security experts are nearly unanimous in opposition to it.
I hate when articles make these ridiculous claims in order to inflate their credibility. Are there problems the security community needs to address before using technology to vote in a democracy? Yes. Is online voting a danger to democracy? No, but there are bigger problems that need to be solved before online voting should be implemented.
Point: I just tried to temporarily remove a freeze on my credit report after the Office of Personal Management (aka, the office for federal employees) lost all of my PII in a large-scale hack that occurred more than a year ago. For those of you interested, all of my credit is essentially frozen indefinitely as a result of this hack. Now, in order for me to validate my own identity, I had to reproduce (sometimes unsuccessfully) a series of data points that anyone with a hard copy of my credit report combined with my OPM breached data could reproduce. The real issue is the fallacy that a human being is uniquely identified by a set of data points (paper or otherwise). This is fundamentally the issue that must be overcome before we can breach issues like online voting reliably. We continue to create systems based on this fallacy of personal identification, and it is creating more problems than it is solving. Again, paper or otherwise.
Coming to a future near you -- "Whole Gene Sequencing Attestation: What better to prove you're you, than you? Come by one of labs today to refresh your ID token!"
I hate when articles make these ridiculous claims in order to inflate their credibility. Are there problems the security community needs to address before using technology to vote in a democracy? Yes. Is online voting a danger to democracy? No, but there are bigger problems that need to be solved before online voting should be implemented.
Point: I just tried to temporarily remove a freeze on my credit report after the Office of Personal Management (aka, the office for federal employees) lost all of my PII in a large-scale hack that occurred more than a year ago. For those of you interested, all of my credit is essentially frozen indefinitely as a result of this hack. Now, in order for me to validate my own identity, I had to reproduce (sometimes unsuccessfully) a series of data points that anyone with a hard copy of my credit report combined with my OPM breached data could reproduce. The real issue is the fallacy that a human being is uniquely identified by a set of data points (paper or otherwise). This is fundamentally the issue that must be overcome before we can breach issues like online voting reliably. We continue to create systems based on this fallacy of personal identification, and it is creating more problems than it is solving. Again, paper or otherwise.