Category Archives: voting technology

Voting in Americans Elect Internet Primary Will Not Be Secret

February 10, 2012, 11:51 amballot access, internet voting, voting technologyRick Hasen

I have been very critical of Americans Elect’s rules and procedures for conducting its nomination process, including its use of the Internet for voting. William Kelleher, who is generally a supporter of Internet voting, wrote to Americans Elect to… Continue reading

“L.A. County ‘Challenge’ Could Be the Future of Voting Technology”

January 26, 2012, 8:13 amelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

A Chapinblog.

“Crosscutting Program – The Law and Science of Trustworthy Elections: Facing the Challenges of Internet Voting and Other E-Voting Technologies”

January 2, 2012, 5:23 pmvoting technologyRick Hasen

This AALS program from 9 to noon on Thursday Jan 5 will be in Thurgood Marshall North, mezzanine level, Marriott Wardman Hotel. I do not yet have the room number for the law and blogging program I am doing that… Continue reading

“Iowa GOP worried by hacker threat to caucus vote”

December 20, 2011, 8:17 amvoting technologyRick Hasen

AP reports.

“Avoiding the Florida Nightmare in 2012”

December 20, 2011, 8:15 amvoting technologyRick Hasen

Sundeep Iyer and Lawrence Norden have written this Roll Call oped. It concludes: “The Help America Vote Act was an important opening salvo in the effort to prevent lost votes. But now is not the time to be complacent… Continue reading

Will the 2012 Elections Be Hacked?

December 19, 2011, 9:30 amelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

Oy.

“W. Va. Secretary of State “felt set up at a recent conference on Internet voting”

December 12, 2011, 4:57 pminternet voting, voting technologyRick Hasen

Scroll down. Ron Rivest said at the conference that internet voting is like a “safe cigarette.”

“Colorado Secretary of State proposing changes to voting machine security”

December 7, 2011, 8:58 pmvoting technologyRick Hasen

Denver Post: “The Colorado Secretary of State’s office is considering changes that would relax security around electronic voting machines, making the already-vulnerable equipment more susceptible to hacking, opponents of the equipment and the draft rules said today.”

“Oregon Tests iPads as Aid to Disabled Voters”

November 16, 2011, 8:12 pmelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

NYT: “Could the iPad someday supplant the voting machine?”

Trachtenberg on Kelleher on Jefferson

November 4, 2011, 8:02 aminternet voting, voting technologyRick Hasen

Mitch Trachtenberg sends along the following comments on William Kelleher’s rebuttal to David Jefferson’s recent paper on security issues with Internet voting: I’m somewhat bewildered by this “rebuttal,” as it does not appear to address the important points David Jefferson… Continue reading

“Rebuttal to David Jefferson’s Brief against Internet Voting”

November 2, 2011, 3:21 pminternet voting, voting technologyRick Hasen

Here.

Jefferson: If I can shop and bank online, why can’t I vote online?

November 1, 2011, 9:33 aminternet voting, voting technologyRick Hasen

In the course of writing The Voting Wars, and particularly the topic on voting technology, I encountered a number of readers who thought that Internet voting should be no harder to set up securely than online banking. My research… Continue reading