This document discusses e-voting and associated risks. It begins by defining electronic voting as a system where election data is primarily recorded, stored, and processed digitally. It notes that e-voting could increase voter turnout and support democracy, while also opening new markets. However, barriers include a lack of standards, difficulty changing laws, high costs, and security and reliability concerns. The document outlines security risks like denial of service attacks and malware infecting voting machines. It provides details on how early internet voting systems worked and the life cycle of voting systems. Finally, it concludes that e-voting is an emerging issue with open questions that requires further experimentation and security expertise.

1. E-VOTING AND ASSOCIATED
RISKS
Presented By
Prem Deshmane
IMED
MBA
1st Year
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2. What is electronic voting (system)?
 An electronic voting (e-voting) system is a voting
system in which the election data is recorded, stored
and processed primarily as digital information.
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3. Do we need electronic voting systems?
 They could lead to increased voter turnout thus
supporting democratic process.
 They could give elections new potential (by providing
ballots in multiple languages, accommodating
lengthy ballots, facilitate early and absentee voting,
etc.) thus enhancing democratic process.
 They could open a new market, thus supporting the
commerce and the employment.
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4. Barriers to electronic voting
 Lack of common voting system
 standards across nations.
 Time and difficulty of changing
 national election laws.
 Time and cost of certifying a voting system.
 Security and reliability of electronic voting.
 Equal access to Internet voting for all socioeconomic
groups.
 Difficulty of training election judges on a new system.
 Political risk associated with trying a new voting system.
 ̧Need for security and election experts.
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5. Security risk analysis
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6. FACTS ABOUT E-VOTING
• The first Internet vote was cast by US astronaut David Wolf who was allowed to
vote by e-mail from the space station Mir in the 1997 Texas election.
The Internet voting system used would include the following features:
 a provision for authentication (a PIN mailed to an eligible voter)
 encryption of the vote with a public key on the client machine with the private
key held by a trusted 3rd party
 transmission of the vote to an election.com server using a SSL encrypted pipe
 separation of the voter identity from the vote into two tables. Audit logs tracked
who voted and another audit logged monitored access to the database server.
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7. Working Of e-Voting System
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8. Voting System Life Cycle
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9. Security threats to voting systems
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10. Security threats to Internet voting
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11. Conclusions
 Rapidly emerging issue...
 There are contradicting views...
 Several questions remain open...
 Security experts and skillful judges needed...
 Need for further experimentation...
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12. THANK YOU
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