Internet Voting in Australia
FMS Group Seminar
- When?
- Thursday 13 September 2012, 15:30 to 16:30
- Where?
- 39 BB 02
- Open to:
- Staff, Students, Public
- Speaker:
- Roland Wen, School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Internet voting is in the process of being adopted in Australia. The state of New South Wales recently used Internet voting on a large scale in the 2011 NSW State General Election. However there was a wide range of serious failures with the NSW iVote system in areas including transparency, scrutiny, engineering, risk assessment and oversight. In particular iVote did not provide verifiability, and moreover it experienced a number of critical incidents during the election. In this talk I will discuss these problems and the steps needed to avoid them in future. I will also give a brief overview of the plans in Victoria for Internet voting.
