By Anthony Berrios
Blog Post #8
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have made bold claims against Tech Company Voatz and their newly proposed voting software that is supposed to be used from the comfort of voters smartphones. The MIT researchers said that one of the apps was so insecure that no state should use it for their upcoming 2020 elections. Voatz is a tech startup, and according to the NY Times, they have planned on test benching their new voting app in a small experiment. But the researchers at MIT have said they were able to reverse engineer the app and found out that security flaws would allow cyber attackers to view votes being cast and potentially change ballots or block ballots without voters realizing. The Times also added in that conducting a reliable audit would be difficult because there would be no paper trail of how the votes were cast originally. I personally like the idea of voting from a mobile device but the security issues that come along with doing so, no matter how secure the app being used is quite scary. Not to mention the fear of your vote potentially being altered to benefit a candidate you didn’t vote for takes away our right as citizens to elect our own officials. An app would make it more convenient and possibly voter outcome would increase as a result, but why would it matter if there was a larger group at work altering Americans votes?
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