Predicting Our Future

Predicting Our Future


Episode 8: Hacking Elections, DDoS Attacks, & Online Voting Around the World

June 12, 2017

In a 2016 testimony addressing the House Committee on Space, Science & Technology, Dan Wallach warned that the country’s voting infrastructure was vulnerable to hacking by foreign governments. Computer scientists have long spoken of the dangers of electronic voting machines, and now they’re warning against adopting online voting. But is there a fundamental difference in the way that academics and entrepreneurs approach the risks and benefits of online voting? How might the introduction of online voting change the way that we conduct American elections? In the second episode of a 3-part series on the future of online voting, Andrew investigates how online voting is already being piloted around the world and whether there are creative ways to approach the risks inherent in online voting by interviewing some of the foremost experts and innovators in this space, including Professor Dan Wallach, Professor David Dill, James Simmons of Everyone Counts, Jordi Puiggali of Scytl, & Antonio Mugica of Smartmatic.