{"id":6779,"date":"2022-08-23T08:37:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T06:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/23\/experts-question-security-of-online-vote-to-pick-tory-leader\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T08:37:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T06:37:34","slug":"experts-question-security-of-online-vote-to-pick-tory-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/23\/experts-question-security-of-online-vote-to-pick-tory-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts question security of online vote to pick Tory leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology should not be used as it is unproven for such high-stakes elections, one security specialist says<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2022\/aug\/22\/liz-truss-economic-plan-cost-of-living-rishi-sunak-conservative-leadership-uk-politics-latest\">Politics live: latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Conservative party should not use online voting to pick its leader and next prime minister, cybersecurity experts have warned, as the technology is not proven for such a \u201chigh stakes\u201d use.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, the next UK prime minister will be selected by online voters, as well as those sending paper ballots. The 160,000 Conservative party members who have a vote were offered the choice of filling in their postal ballots and returning them, or of voting online instead, using a code contained on the form.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/aug\/22\/experts-question-security-online-vote-pick-tory-leader\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ac4b69e21daa7599d495893044da9736646f86d9\/0_325_5568_3341\/master\/5568.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=37182bcc2568bea095f8bf26df27a2e4\" title=\"Experts question security of online vote to pick Tory leader\" \/>Technology should not be used as it is unproven for such high-stakes elections, one security specialist says<br \/>\nPolitics live: latest updates<br \/>\nThe Conservative party should not use online voting to pick its leader and next prime minister, cybersecurity experts have warned, as the technology is not proven for such a \u201chigh stakes\u201d use.<br \/>\nFor the first time, the next UK prime minister will be selected by online voters, as well as those sending paper ballots. The 160,000 Conservative party members who have a vote were offered the choice of filling in their postal ballots and returning them, or of voting online instead, using a code contained on the form. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology should not be used as it is unproven for such high-stakes elections, one security specialist says Politics live: latest updates The Conservative party should not use online voting to pick its leader and next prime minister, cybersecurity experts have warned, as the technology is not proven for such a \u201chigh stakes\u201d use. For the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/23\/experts-question-security-of-online-vote-to-pick-tory-leader\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Experts question security of online vote to pick Tory leader<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}