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Online voter turnout in Russia’s presidential election on the federal platform has reached 90%, according to the portal on online vote monitoring, APA reports citing TASS. As of 9:27 p.m. Moscow time (6:27 p.m. GMT), as many as 4,268,291 ballots were issued to voters in 28 Russian regions, who had applied for voting online. Thus, voter turnout on the federal platform of electronic voting was 90%. Residents of Moscow can vote on Moscow’s own platform and were not required to apply for remote voting beforehand.

The incumbent Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, who is vying for the country’s top office as an independent candidate, has cast his electronic vote in the presidential election, APA reports quoting TASS. The published video footage shows Putin walking to a computer in his office, casting his vote and then smiling and waving at the camera. The computer monitor displayed a standard notification for a successfully cast vote.

The left loves absentee voting, so I say let’s give it to them. And let’s make it as easy as picking up a scratch-off lottery ticket from the local store. Hell, let them vote on their phones. What could go wrong?Nothing. Welcome to Redo Voting, the world’s first and only transparent, unhackable, incorruptible, paper-based voting system. No wiggle room on chain of custody, no Zuckerbucks to buy influence, and no reason to stop counting votes at 10:30 p.m. when the Republican presidential candidate is pummelling whatshisface, you know, the thing.From the Redo Voting website:Redo Voting is a hybrid of existing...

SNIP Online voting will be available for the King Conservation District Board of Supervisors election, a contest so obscure that voters have typically had to specifically request a ballot to vote. King Conservation District elections have typically drawn voter turnout of 1% to 3%. Still, it will be the first election anywhere in the country in which every registered voter is eligible to vote online, according to Tusk Philanthropies, the nonprofit partnering with the county to implement the system. And county officials are viewing the online election as a pilot project that could, if successful, be a step toward expanding...

NEW YORK – George Soros’s Open Society Foundations is seeking to expand the use of electronic and online voting systems nationwide, according to a leaked Foundations document reviewed by Breitbart News. While the directive was issued two years ago, the issue of electronic voting has become a hot button topic in this year’s presidential election amid fears digital voting systems can be compromised. The online voting plan was contained in a 67-page hacked file detailing the September 29-30, 2014 Open Society U.S. Programs board meeting in New York.

The Utah Republican Party is hosting what is could be the nation's largest online election ever. In addition to hosting a statewide caucus, the party set up an online voting system for any registered voter outside or inside the state. Unfortunately, Utah's digital election night doesn't seem to be going as smoothly as Utah Republicans had hoped. While Utah Republicans headed to their caucus in person on Tuesday evening, anyone who had registered online by March 17 can log on to utah.gop to vote between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. local time and cast their vote. But the Deseret News...

SALT LAKE CITY — Some Utah Republicans complained they ran into difficulties when they attempted to vote online Tuesday in their party's presidential preference election. Both the state party offices and the help line set up by Smartmatic, the Florida-based company handling the online voting for the GOP, were deluged with calls from Utahns having problems casting their vote.

Smartmatic Group, an electronic voting firm whose worldwide headquarters is located in the United Kingdom, will be running the online balloting process in the Utah Republican Open Caucuses on Tuesday. The chairman of Smartmatic’s board, Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, currently serves on the board of George Soros’s Open Society Foundation and has close ties to the billionaire. The Wall Street Journal dubbed the Republican party’s online adventure on Tuesday as “one of the biggest online votes conducted so far in the U.S.” and the “largest experiment with online presidential voting since 2004, when Michigan allowed Democrats to vote in a party...

Next week’s Utah Republican Caucus will be the first of its kind in the history of the United States. The state’s Republican Party will allow Utah voters who registered for online voting by March 15 to vote from anywhere in the world for a 2016 GOP candidate. That means voters can use cell phones and tablets as well as computers — any “device with Internet connection” to log in and vote with the personal identification number that was sent to them via email or text message upon registering. s a result, the Party expects turnout in next Tuesday’s caucus to...

Democrats are thinking about using Internet balloting in 2016 to expand their voter base and select a president -- prompting Republicans to consider such a strategy to keep from losing ground. Iowa Democrats proposed the idea and several others during a recent Democratic National Committee meeting, saying Internet balloting could expand access to their unique caucus process to overseas military personnel, absentee voters and others. -SNIP- “I think it’s a very bad idea,” says the Heritage Foundation’s Hans von Spakovsky, who thinks computer-based voting will never happen, or at least not in the “foreseeable future.”

Saturday, February 14, 2004 Army pushes voter registration in Area II By Jeremy Kirk, Stars and StripesPacific edition, Sunday, February 15, 2004 YONGSAN GARRISON, South Korea — Eighth Army officials are running an aggressive campaign to register eligible voters in light of the Defense Department’s recent canceling of an online voting program.On Friday, about 60 senior voting assistance officers were briefed on how to help soldiers register to vote and receive absentee ballots.“We do make a difference,” said Capt. Zuleika Jackson-Jones, who briefed the group. “It’s very important that we get out there.”The Army wants 100 percent of its soldiers,...

DETROIT, Jan. 7 — The virtual ballot box has arrived in Michigan. Democrats in this state are the only voters in the country who have the option of voting online in the presidential primaries this year. Since New Year's Day, voters have been allowed to apply for ballots and vote by mail or Internet in advance of the Feb. 7 caucuses. Or, on Feb. 7, they can go to one of 576 caucus sites and vote the old-fashioned way. By Thursday night, 11,000 people had applied for ballots, three-fourths of them over the Internet, according to the Michigan Democratic Party....

Online voting offers alternativeby Staff Sgt. Jeff SchoenAir Force Reserve Command Public Affairs 11/25/2003 - ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. (AFPN) -- Potentially hundreds of airmen serving worldwide may be eligible to vote online in 2004 based on a major government initiative to simplify the absentee-ballot process. The secure electronic registration and voting experiment program is part of the Federal Voting Assistance Program. Program organizers hope the experiment will encourage as many as 100,000 absentee voters, including reservists stationed worldwide, to register and vote in state primaries and the general election in 2004. The initiative is designed to improve access to the polls...

<p>NEW YORK — Online voting, once considered science fiction, will become a reality when the Department of Defense employs its Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (search) next year.</p> <p>The SERVE program will allow as many as 100,000 uniformed service members and overseas citizens to cast their ballots in the presidential primaries and general election.</p>

<p>NEW YORK — Online voting, once considered science fiction, will become a reality when the Department of Defense employs its Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (search) next year.</p> <p>The SERVE program will allow as many as 100,000 uniformed service members and overseas citizens to cast their ballots in the presidential primaries and general election.</p>

Defense plans to expand online voting in 2004 election By Chloe Albanesius, National Journal's Technology Daily Despite voting issues that plagued the 2000 election, the Defense Department will expand its online voting initiative during the 2004 election cycle. Dubbed SERVE, short for Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment, the program is part of the federal voting-assistance program and is open to military personnel in the United States and abroad and certain civilians living overseas. Votes can be cast on any computer with Internet access and that operates on Microsoft's Windows system. The 2000 pilot program was launched "to explore...