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Anytime, Anywhere Anyone (AAA) Internet Voting in India

Anytime, Anywhere Anyone (AAA) Internet Voting in India. Raj Reddy Carnegie Mellon University Aug 2, 2016. Long Term Vision. Only 65% are able vote today Rest are unable to vote for many reasons Physical Handicap or Age or Lack of Transporation Travel out of station Service Professionals

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Anytime, Anywhere Anyone (AAA) Internet Voting in India

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  1. Anytime, Anywhere Anyone (AAA) Internet Voting in India Raj Reddy Carnegie Mellon University Aug 2, 2016

  2. Long Term Vision • Only 65% are able vote today • Rest are unable to vote for many reasons • Physical Handicap or Age or Lack of Transporation • Travel out of station • Service Professionals • Migrant Workers including Officers on duty • Technology can enable over 95% to cast the vote, today • Time Independent: ANYTIME • Location Independent: ANYWHERE • Category Independent: ANYONE • Expectation: • Near Term: 40% of Voters will own Smart Phones • Medium Term: 70% of Voters will own Smart Phones • Long Term: 90% of Voters will own Smart Phones

  3. Desired Outcomes • Online Voting: Permitted for Any “Registered” Voter with a “Smart Phone” • Anytime Voting: Upto 4 weeks ahead of Election Date • Anywhere Voting: From anywhere in world • Access to Next Gen EVMs for Voters without Smartphones • Authentication by Voice Dialog in Local Language • Aadhaar Card plus Voice Print • Authorization using OTP at the Time of Voting using Personalized ECI App after Authentication and Challenge Questions • Audit using Triplicated Data Centers

  4. Emerging Business of Political Hacking and Stealing Elections More Dangerous than Voting Fraud • Modern political operation: running attack ads, researching the opposition, and finding ways to suppress a foe’s turnout. • Disinformation and Misinformation • Manipulate social media to create false waves of enthusiasm and derision, • Defacing campaign websites • spoof and clone Web pages, and • send mass e-mails and texts • Digital interception, attack, decryption, and defense • Dirty war and psychological operations, black propaganda, rumors • “Online and Physical” breakin to steal campaign strategies and Install spyware in opposition offices • Breaking into opponents’ donor databases • Specialties: develop the best malware. scan systems and software for vulnerabilities. mobile intercept • hack smartphones

  5. Requirements for Internet Voting • Connectivity: WiFi/Broadband Wireless • Computing: Smart Phone • Capacity: Speech Based UI • Authentication App: Local Language Speech Dialog • Authorization App: QA and One Time Password • Audit End to End Verified Internet Voting (E2E VIV)

  6. Reliable IT Infrastructure: Data Centers, WiFi and Broadband Wireless in Villages • Multi Vendor Data Centers • Village Level Access through • WiFi • Broadband Wireless • Access to Smart Phone • Speech I/O based User Interface

  7.   Action Items • Agree on a Multiphase Implementation of E2E-VIV • Remote Voting Permitted for Any Registered Voter with a Smart Phone • Anytime: Upto 4 weeks ahead of Election Date? • Anywhere: From anywhere in world • Use of NG-EVMs must always be available • Authentication by Voice Dialog in Local Language • Target Dates • Near Term: 30% of Voters use Internet • Medium Term: 60% of Voters use Internet • Long Term: 80% of Voters use Internet

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