Topic: Securing Democratic Elections to Protect E-Voting System via Cryptography in the United States
Electronic voting was proposed as an alternative and more reliable solution to the traditional voting system in the United States. Early efforts to integrate the old system into the new voting system consisted of various challenges. For instance, attackers, manipulators, or other criminal groups can collaborate with corrupt politicians and election officers who have falsified scores. Therefore, researches of various scholars were examined towards designing a highly secured e-voting system that would prevent hackers, corrupt politicians, and election officers from leveraging any form of fraudulent activities. The world cannot be a credible place without trustful elections to do anything (Adekunle et al,2020). The purpose of this paper is to review the literature from different scholars and identify shortcomings in designing highly secured cryptographic methods to focus on current practices and future considerations of the United States e-voting system.
Speaker: Ekrem E Emeksiz, Graduate Assistant, Cyber Forensics MS Program, University of Baltimore
Ekrem Ersen Emeksiz was born in Turkiye in 1980, graduated from Turkish Police Academy in 2001, served as law enforcement administrator in 15 years focused on counterterrorism, cyber crimes and state security. Worked 3 years at Turkish Consulate General in New York as a Security Attache. Then he obtained his master`s degree from John Jay College of Criminal Justice International Crime and Justice MA program, now working as a graduate assistant and grad student at the University of Baltimore Cyber Forensics program, recently approved his green card application due to United States National Interest on Cybersecurity and counterterrorism (EB-2). Ekrem is married and has two children. In a nutshell 20+years of field, research, teaching and management experience in policing, counterterrorism, conflict resolution, risk & crisis management, cybersecurity, digital rights management (DRM), intellectual property rights and trademark law. Currently conducts vulnerability analysis, cybersecurity awareness training, cyber auditing, SOC 1 , GRC and DFIR.
