Internet voting ⟩ Finnish expert: We do not want to put the integrity of our elections at risk

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Interview with Johanna Suurpää from the Ministry of Justice of Finland, who in 2017 led a working group of experts whose task was to prepare a preliminary report on the implementation of e-voting. Based on the report, Finland decided not to introduce e-voting.

In 2016, Finnish government set a strategic goal for Finland to prepare switching to electronic voting alongside traditional voting in all elections. The Ministry of Justice appointed a working group to prepare a preliminary report on the implementation of online voting.

The working group met in 2017, once a month, a total of eight times. It consisted of 15 members, including several cybersecurity experts from universities and government agencies, social scientists, and legal experts from the Ministry of Justice.