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Internet Voting: An Idea whose Time has Not Come
Summary
Barbara Simons examines some of the threats of Internet voting in the hope of encouraging the technical community to oppose Internet voting unless and until these threats can be eliminated.
Bio
Dr. Barbara Simons is an expert on electronic voting and was appointed to the Board of Advisors of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Simons was President of ACM from July 1998 until June 2000, a Fellow of ACM and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award recipient from the College of Engineering of U.C. Berkeley.
About the conference
SPLASH is the ACM conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity. SPLASH is an annual conference that embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery. This is the premier conference at the intersection of programming languages, programming, and software engineering.