Voting from the Home or Office? Don´t Hold Your Breath

This article describes the challenges of Internet voting defined here as casting an electronic national or state direct election ballot from a location other than a polling station. The widely used terms "electronic voting" or "e-voting" represent the highly publicized (and controversial) use of special electronic devices at polling stations. Our interest here is the next step in governance - remote voting via the Internet, without having to physically go to a polling place.