MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Risks of Digital Democracy

Business needs to push back — hard — against cyberthreats to elections.

Like many segments of the economy and society, democracy is in the process of being digitized, a development that promises new levels of efficiency but also brings new risks. Consider the digitization of voting machines, devices that date back to the 19th century. The growing use of direct recording electronic (DRE) voting machines has made possible fully digitized voting and the availability of near real-time results.

About the Author

Gregory Unruh is the Arison Group Endowed Professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and MIT Sloan Management Review’s guest editor for the Sustainability Big Ideas Initiative. He can be reached at unruh@mit.edu or on Twitter @gregoryunruh. David Kiron is executive editor of MIT Sloan Management Review. He tweets @davidkiron1.

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