Venture capital firms belonging to the founder of Microsoft , Paul Allen , believes that the secure online voting system . Gradually, voting via the Internet will become a common practice for all elections ( elections ) in the world , they said.
Vulcan Capital , Allen -owned firm based in California , USA , will invest $ 40 million in Scytl , a digital polling firm origin Barcelona , Spain . Scytl has clients in more than 30 countries , such as Canada , Mexico , and Australia , said by the two companies on Monday .
Scytl established in 2001 to sell a series of electoral modernization services . They offer training election workers or voter registration , to open a server for online voting and counting votes. Scytl has received an injection of capital from Balderton Capital , Nauta Capital and Spinnaker SCR .
Abhishek Agrawal , managing director of Vulcan Capital , said many cities and developed countries have been slowly fixing election technology . He considered in the next few years , developed countries have been quite comfortable with elections entirely digital . Vulcan Capital is an investment firm Vulcan Inc. , owned Allen ..
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Agrawal admitted impressed with the security and cryptographic technologies Scytl . According to him , no sense that we are now able to transact via online banking or file a tax return over the Internet , but can not hold a digital election .
" This is a global trend that is very influential , " he said . " There is a gradual path to modernization . "
The concept of elections via the Internet has been around for more than 10 years throughout the world . However, various technical error has been made politicians , voters , and academics are skeptical . In 2010 , the test online election in Washington DC quickly hacked by a group of programmers from the University of Michigan . Critics say the online election security is still not strong enough to ensure the integrity of democratic elections .
" The stakes are very large so that the incentive system unruk disrupt election [ online ] will be greater than the design intended to protect the integrity of the [ election ] , " said Alexander Shvartsman , professor of computer science at the University of Connecticut .
Scytl 's CEO , Pere Vallès , doubts about the claim to understand the digital ballot .
" The election is a very important process and people are very unwilling to take risks , " said Vallès . " They do not want to be the first to wear voting online , but they also do not want to be the last . "WSJ
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