Having worked in IT for the Army, as well as pointing this out to IT Techs I currently know, we all say, ‘NO!’
Another ploy by the Socialist Democrat Party to electronically stuff ballot boxes!
CHEATERS!
This should NEVER EVER EVER be allowed to happen in a free society!
What are the names of these idiots who put this in place??
I wonder if/when some conservative group will challenge this insane law?
Voatz is also sketchy on details relating to its use of blockchain technology, making it unclear whether it offers a specific advantage over standard databases. “With all the servers in the custody of the vendor, a dishonest vendor could do anything they want to the results,” warned Marian K. Schneider, president of the U.S. advocacy group Verified Voting.
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Blockchain servers are typically not in the possession of any one owner or entity. It’s part of the reason why it’s so secure, along with the decryption difficulty.
Also, this sort of thing would be somewhat easy to detect. Your State and local Secretary of State or Board of Electors should have a system of creating secret dummy sample voters for which the vote records can be pulled after the counts to verify matching votes. In fact, this would be a good method for error checking as well as for catching fraud.
The most secure method is a paper ballot handed to the voter at the polling station. The voter then goes into the privacy booth, makes their selection(s), folds the ballot and places said ballot in the box. The boxes are opened only after the polls close, and the public is free to view the counting at any and all times.
Any other method of balloting is far too vulnerable to fraud.
Early voting should only be for those unable to attend for professional or military reasons, and those ballots should be kept at the courthouse and counted the same day as regular ballots, the same way.
Paper ballots and dye-stained index fingers...the only way to have an honest election in these corrupt times.
Misleading statement. What should be added is "...ONLY if they are overseas military or overseas gov't workers."
Have no knowledge of the tech end of this but SoS Warner wants to make sure these votes are counted. For various reasons, they often are not. Warner led the fight to purge 70,000 entries from voter rolls since Jan '17.
As a EE with extensive years in communications and IT, this would be a “Hell No”.....
Although you may be able to secure the ability, similar to online banking, there is no guarantee of who is actually voting....
Plus the platform leaves a door open into the voting platform for potential massive hacking....unlike a business protecting its interests, this is government employees ( largely democrat) ensuring the integrity of the system.....oops...
I spent six years in the Navy in the 1980’s. I had no problem voting in every election, no matter where I was in the world.
Voting by cell phone is a disaster waiting to happen.
Just wait until the next step - Google, Apple, facebook, twitter, et. al. will “make it even easier to vote with your smartphone.”
They’ll add “fact checks” about every option on the ballot (from “trusted fact checkers”) and a “vote like me” to automatically check everyone who “I” should vote for. Then the ability to let your phone “vote like me” every election without even needing to run the app or see the ballot or even know an election is today - turn the phone on and google will submit your votes. And “for privacy reasons” they won’t be able to even show you who you voted for (a boss could demand you show them so it’s dangerous to show who you/google voted for).
I think it is ironic that Mueller is wasting untold dollars and time trying to “prove” collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign, while West Virginia is allowing voting by smart phone. If that isn’t open to hacking by bad actors from, oh, say, Russia, what is?
As someone who spent 35+ years in IT, it has always been my feeling that not all technologies are advances in living. I’m also beginning to understand why my uncle, who worked on some top secret aircraft during his career in the 50’s through the 80’s, became a total Luddite upon his retirement. No cable, no cell phones, nothing! Most of the music he listened to was on old vinyl records or reel-to-reel tapes. Only when it became almost impossible to find vinyl records did he start using CDs.
Demonrats are seriously scared.