Anytime, Anywhere Anyone (AAA) Internet Voting in India

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Anytime, Anywhere Anyone (AAA) Internet Voting
in India

• Raj Reddy
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Aug 2, 2016

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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

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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

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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 foes 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

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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)

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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

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  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