Posted on 02/10/2020 10:21:47 AM PST by ManHunter
Voatz, the company behind a mobile app that’s been used by several jurisdictions to collect ballots from overseas voters in recent elections, defended on Friday recent warnings from officials and election security experts about adopting the new technology. Responding to a letter in which Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asked officials in his home state to reconsider using Voatz this year, the company said such a notice “increases the fear of technology” being used in the democratic process.
In his letter, which was first reported Thursday by the Washington Post, Wyden wrote to Oregon Secretary of State Bev Clarno of his misgivings with two counties’ plans to offer Voatz to their deployed military and overseas voters, mentioning previous warnings about online voting.
“Election security experts have uniformly warned against the practice of voting over the internet and have instead urged the use of hand-marked paper ballots,” Wyden wrote, citing in particular a 2018 report from the National Academies of Sciences that recommended that all elections be conducted offline and on paper.
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Clearly such a process would benefit absentee voters (like the US military) in a major way. Elections have been fraught with claims by military members that absentee ballots were mailed to late to return them in time and, in many cases, not mailed at all. While I have no doubt that these delays and omissions were simple "human error" or a "computer glitch" [choking on sarcasm right now], I suspect Senator Wyden is concerned about his party's ability to influence the impact of absentee voters, particularly the US military, on upcoming elections.
One bad app spoils the whole bushel...
Let’s add finger-dipping in indelible ink.
Make it tough to get those phantom and dead voters up to the ink well.
It is just too easy to hack into electronic voting at any level—and there are too many sociopaths with the skills and willingness to take on the challenge.
Paper is not a great solution, but it is the least bad one.
Whoa...hhmmm...I MAY agree, BUT ONLY if we re-register everyone first
Wyden gets one right, wonders never cease....
And a purple finger?
When I was there, Washington had a pretty good system. They used hand-filled ballots, which were then fed into an electronic scanner, when read and recorded the votes. The individual devices also LOCKED IN the paper ballots in case a recount was ever needed.
Dallas County in Texas uses the same thing. Probably the best option, all things considered.
Yup...pretty much the best of both worlds. Can still be cheated "where the votes are counted", which is why public monitors of all interested candidates should be at every place where vote counting takes place.
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