The world is changing. More and more services are moving online. So it seems anachronistic that in the United Kingdom, we still cast our votes on paper in church halls. Many people may wonder why electronic voting is not already a reality in the UK. E-voting in the polling booth or over the internet offers the prospect of accessibility and convenience for voters, and new opportunities for voter engagement. It also offers efficiency gains for election administrators in collecting and counting votes electronically rather than by hand.
Yet the cyber security challenges for electronic voting are difficult because of the need to enable voters to vote in a free and fair way, protecting the secrecy of their ballot while ensuring that it delivers the correct result. And it needs to do all this in a way that gains the trust of the public. The current system in the UK, for all its flaws, is well understood and trusted.
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