presentation is related e-voting and associated risks in India.

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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