<story><title>In Estonian parliamentary election, 44% of the votes were cast online</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/online-voting-now-estonia-teaches-the-world-a-lesson-in-electronic-elections/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>deogeo</author><text>&amp;quot;The system has been designed to ensure that voters&amp;#x27; computers are not infected by any kind of malware that could change or block their vote.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure this cannot be subverted by an attacker with the resources of USA&amp;#x2F;China&amp;#x2F;India&amp;#x2F;.., or with access to the supply chain from the chip fab onward (don&amp;#x27;t forget about malware hidden in USB cables!), or or,...&lt;p&gt;And you&amp;#x27;d have to be &lt;i&gt;dead sure&lt;/i&gt;, because, unlike with physical votes, there will be few-to-none signs of subversion. You can vote physically, but what do a few physical votes matter when the attacker can change the vote of 30, 50, 70% of the population.&lt;p&gt;And how do you change the system, when all parties promising to do so can&amp;#x27;t get enough votes?&lt;p&gt;Edit: Example of what a voting system must be resistant against: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.schneier.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;archives&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;adding_backdoor.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.schneier.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;archives&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;adding_backdo...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>In Estonian parliamentary election, 44% of the votes were cast online</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/online-voting-now-estonia-teaches-the-world-a-lesson-in-electronic-elections/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>HarryHirsch</author><text>That is worrying. How do you know that the voter could vote freely and didn&amp;#x27;t sell their vote? Corruption around vote-selling is a concern in certain ethnic enclaves in Britain, and there were even elections annulled over that. The foremost concern shouldn&amp;#x27;t be convenience, it should be that the vote is safe and secret.</text></comment>