Delaware briefly deployed a controversial internet voting system recently but scrapped it amid concerns about security and public confidence. Before the online option was shuttered, voters ...

Online voting platforms like Democracy Live and Voatz have ambitious long-term goals, but experts caution that they're still not as secure enough to replace traditional methods.

Experts say electronic voting systems need to generate a voter-verifiable paper audit trail. (U.S. State Dept. Photo) Chastened by Russian interference and hacking attempts in the 2016 election ...

Back in 2010, for example, Washington, DC, was developing an open-source system for online voting and invited the public to try to hack the system in a mock trial.

There is already limited online voting in some Swiss cantons, using two separate certified systems. The government says two thirds of those eligible have chosen this option, attesting to the demand.

Any online voting system has to arrive at its conclusion in such a way that voters and observers can verify the count, independently of the software used – this is called end-to-end verifiability.

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The team behind Secure Internet Voting has offered $10,000 in prize money to be shared among any hackers who can successfully identify flaws in their system.