Call for official at the county did say i voted for so and so. Is that who you got . They should be able to say yes i voted for the candidate, you got it right. Its time that we voted. We have the representative on the line so we are going to cut to the representative and then we will come back to the audience question and answer. Its great to be with you today and thank you for the invitation to join you remotely and especially want to thank david wilson of at the Atlantic Council for their efforts to make this possible. I would rather be there in person but its somehow fitting as this discussion is about the promise of digital happening over skype. So in the communications in a credible way. Before i give my remarks i have a great interest in increasing Voter Participation at a long history in the legislature i took a big interest in the Election Form and making voting easier. We had people waiting in line for hours and hours to vote and we had have the oldest Voting Machines in the
Before i begin, let me just say i have great interest in increasing Voter Participation in our democracy and i always look for innovative ways to do that. I have a long history of being involved with the electoral process with the legislature. I served for three terms and have a great interest in election reform in making voting easier. Number of Horror Stories in rhode island where we had people waiting in line for , and and hours to vote sometimes we actually had the oldest Voting Machines in the country. Sometimes we had to get on our hands and needs cantonese to read the bottom of the ballots. Not to mention the fact that , i wasisabled myself never really able to vote on my own independently going into the machine. I had to have someone with me and assist me. It wasnt until i became secretary of state and i actually overhauled the states there wastem that accessible voting for people with the build bit with disabilities. I actually chaired the special legislative commission lookin
Worry is that somebody can decrypt the vote. This is something very and board important. It is not a matter of including votes. Encrypting votes. One important requirement is that the encrypting processes preserving privacy. If someone is encrypting a vote, if they cannot correlate, using correlate the content of the vote. If using these processes that can prevent correlation, it doesnt matter if someone can decrypt it. In any case were working with algorithms. If someone does get your credit card, the most likely worstcase scenario is someone gets hold of your credit card and they use it and make fraudulent purchases, and that is bad. But it is solvable, and especially, we dont have to worry about it. At most in the United States we would have to pay 50, and most of us dont even have to do that. There might be some trouble about getting a new card, but essentially its not that bad a problem for you personally. I think we are used to that, saying it is risky but not such a risk that is
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Clear that online voting and evoting could become a larger part of the political process in the United States and in other participatory democracies if the security is in place, and i think that is the key element of a. We believe this is a nonpartisan issue and endeavor, so our focus today is to highlight the new era in Digital Democracy is possible if we can get the security questions right and create trustworthy platforms. Online voting is among those transformative technologies like the smart grid and for whats we must get security right to fully a markets potential. We are delighted that during the course of our program we will use technology to welcome the discussion representative jim langevin, a Ranking Member of the House Armed Services subcommittee on intelligence and emerging threats and capabilities, has become a National Leader on the issue of securing our nations infrastructure in Cyber Threats and cofounded the congressional Cyber Security caucus. One of his Staff Member