On-line voting ??
Ease of use and decreasing equipment costs.
Security issues :
- PIN - ensure that a voter's ballot could only be used by that person
- Encryption - Cryptographic protocols used to protect digital ballots and passwords as they travel across the Internet.
- Digital signatures
- Election authorities can authenticate a digital ballot by signing it.
- Voters can sign a digital "ballot envelope" .
- Biometrics Identifiers eg. Voice recognition, fingerprint recognition. Voters would not be able to give their passwords to other people.