CA City Tries to Get Around CA Prohibition on Internet Election
Lowell Finley explains the troubling scenario.
Category Archives: internet voting
Magleby on Voters’ Preferred Methods of Voting
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
“Pentagon watchdogs scrutinize states’ push toward online voting”
Toronto Reports Give Internet Voting a Thumbs-Down
Al Jazeera America ventures north of the border.
“Three years later, Pentagon unit still hides Internet voting test results”
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
“Why internet voting is a very dangerous idea”
Marc Ambinder is so right.
“E-voting experiments end in Norway amid security fears”
“DoD won’t release e-voting penetration tests”
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
“Bitcoin Could Change Voting the Way It’s Changed Money”
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
“Hack the Vote: The Perils of the Online Ballot Box; More than 30 states and territories already allow some form of Internet voting. They might want to reconsider.”
Bruce McConnell and Pamela Smith have written this WSJ oped.
Leland Yee Would Have Made a Lousy Secretary of State Anyway
As I explained in this November 2012 post.
“David Curtis, Green Party Candidate for CA Sec. of State, Strongly Supports Internet Voting”
“Overseas Vote Foundation to Launch Remote Voting Technology Research Project”
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
“The Call for Internet Voting Gets Louder”
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.