a cryptographic end to end user verified voting system will fix this and it will make it MUCH harder to fix elections than our current voting system does. End to end cryptographic voting systems also prevent vote buying, again, Ph.D’s in cryptography have spent YEARS studying and researching and thinking about the issue and developing a system that does just that (that’s the whole point behind the cryptography, because non cryptographic end to end user verified systems have been developed before the cryptographic ones have, so what was the whole point of spending years developing the cryptographic ones if not to prevent voter buying?). Figuring out who you voted for would require a successful cryptographic attack (and yes, our ability to crack algorithms does tend to improve over the years but even so we still have old algorithms that can, to some degree, do a pretty good job at concealing information).

We already use cryptography when we online bank and, frankly, if you know the servers correct public key and your computer (and the servers computer) is not compromised with malware then transmitting information to the intended recipient via https is safer than doing so via the phone (being that there is no encryption via the phone and so an eavesdropper working for the phone company can potentially listen in on your conversation. Also, don’t use cordless phones since they don’t usually provide encryption either).

If we use the best cryptographic algorithms we have and use the most secure keys possible (ie: largest) then I don’t see them being cracked anytime soon. Perhaps 15 – 20 years from now we may need to update the algorithms (as a precaution) to a more modern and secure algorithms to ensure that future generations don’t crack the current algorithm and use it against a future generation. But that’s fine, we’ll update the algorithm every once in a while perhaps.