David Magleby has this piece on Forbes’ Data Freaks, reporting on a survey of Utah voters. A snippet:
We found that 21 percent of the Utah voting population prefers to vote by mail and nearly 20 percent prefer to vote… Continue reading
McClatchy: “A nonprofit watchdog group is suing an obscure Defense Department unit over its failure for three years to disclose the results of testing on the security safeguards of Internet voting systems that are increasingly being used to cast… Continue reading
Politico:
DoD WON’T RELEASE E-VOTING PEN TESTS – Officials have yet to release the results of a 2011 set of penetration tests on Internet voting software conducted by the Department of Defense, prompting election watchdogs to ask what the… Continue reading
MotherBoard: “What does voting have to do with bitcoin? For all its appeal, online voting in its current form— which is already being used or researched in several US states and countries overseas—is very vulnerable to fraud, cyberattack, and… Continue reading
Press release:
Overseas Vote Foundation (OVF), a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to overseas, military, and domestic absentee voter participation has received a grant from the Democracy Fund in support of a research-based approach to the unanswered question of whether… Continue reading
Brian Newby, Election Commissioner in Johnson County, Kansas, writes.
I argue in Chapter 5 of The Voting Wars that Internet Voting at this time would be a huge mistake.