Resumen
Security has become a key issue in election after the introduction of remote electronic voting. The nation's natural inclination to treat its election process as precious, delicate, and fragile, the question of how to adapt technology to improve elections for public officials, is inevitable. Several efforts at electronic voting in the U.S. have taken place over the past several years, and trials in Europe are currently taking place. The Federal Voting Assistance Program was instituted to allow the U.S. citizens who happen to be overseas during an election to vote electronically. The movement is apparently toward more and more remote electronic voting. This type of voting also poses threats in terms of malicious payload or delivery mechanism. One reason remote electronic voting represents such a security challenge is that any successful attack would be highly visible, a factor motivating much of the related hacking activity to date. Even more threatening is that the most serious attacks would come from people motivated by the desire to change without being noticed.