This book offers a realistic plan to put pilot remote Internet voting programmes into effect nationwide. It addresses many of the important questions raised regarding security, accessibility, and impact on American civic life.

Elections by nature are fraught with risk. This work examines the range of past methods and the various technologies that have been created to try to minimize risk and accurately reflect the will of voters. It evaluates the security issues and examines the impacts the computer-based solutions can have on voter participation.

This volume brings together a number of essays that citizens, academics, election officials, policy makers, and other stakeholders can read to become better informed about procedures that used today to audit elections and election administration, and to learn more about new approaches to improve existing election audit procedures.