McAfee, think tank push online voting, but recognize security risks

The U.S. and other nations should look toward Internet voting to make it easier for disabled and elderly people to cast ballots, and to increase participation among young people, but online security remains a huge hurdle, according to a new paper for the Atlantic Council and McAfee. Online voting has "the power to revolutionize the democratic process around the world," said the paper, released Wednesday by the think tank and Intel's security division. However, online security will "need to be vastly improved." With the paper, the Atlantic Council and McAfee are pushing to "change the nature of the cybersecurity debate," said Tom Gann, McAfee's vice president of government relations. "Our goal is to move the public discussion from one that all too often focuses on gloom and doom, to one that focuses on the age of the possible." To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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