Risks of Voting through Smartphones Study
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Argosy University
Added on 2020-04-13
Risks of Voting through Smartphones Study
Argosy University
Added on 2020-04-13
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Risks of Voting through Smartphones The use of smartphones to cast votes is likely to deliver better transparency and accuracy, reducedocumentation and experiences as well as make casting votes more convenience for the UScitizens. But it’s not possible to classify this form of voting as truly secure due to smartphonesand digital technologies capable of being manipulated easily. With ballot and voting machinethe enters can be easily counter checked but with smartphones, there always remains thepossibility of unfair voting taking place due to many people owning multiple smartphones manyof which are owned by people who may not vote[ CITATION Rog \l 1033 ]. This can lead to theunauthorized use of those numbers to cast votes which could lead to favouring one candidateThe most concerning issue related to using smartphones to vote would be how easy it wouldbecome for some politicians in powerful positions to rig the elections. Elections today alreadyattract serious claims of rigging despite them being performed on ballot boxes and throughsecure voting machines. With smartphone voting apps the process would definitely get corruptedas the application can be reverse engineered and altered to cast multiple votes from a singlesmartphone.Most citizens today own smartphones but less than 1% of the users understand how smartphoneapplication is developed not their vulnerabilities. With little knowledge of the back-endoperations of smartphones, the citizens are not capable of even knowing whether the electedofficials have entered office fairly which would result in seriously undermining the public’sinterests.Voting has never been a straightforward process and politicians have been known to rig and buyvotes since time immemorial[ CITATION RSa06 \l 1033 ]. This makes the voting smartphoneapplication an even bigger concern for the public who are likely to lose their grip and controlover electing political of their choice and never be able to follow up on cases of vote rigging.
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