The popularity of voting online is growing and will be in place for the presidential election in more than 30 states, primarily for voters living overseas or serving in the military.
But security experts and some senior Obama administration officials fear there is not enough protection for any ballots transmitted over the Internet. They are warning states that any kind of online voting is not yet secure and most likely will not be for years to come.
Thirty-two states have some form of electronic transmission of ballots over the Internet, compared with no states with online voting in 2000. In Alaska, for example, all voters can submit an absentee elections ballot online from computers in their own homes.
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Banking is secure online and voting isn't? Something they really need to work on.
ReplyDeleteHillary says everything online is secure
ReplyDeleteI think the people who have pushed hard for online (and electronic) voting intended for it to be less than secure. They make a big show of their calibration checks and tests, but ignore (and obscure) the obvious vulnerabilities of using digital files without hard-copy backup.
ReplyDeleteWe've seen the fruit of it in this primary-- many reports of errors and glitches, and they're only dealt with if they're discovered. Hard to say how many haven't been..
Bad idea.
ReplyDeleteso why are we allowing this? hmmmmm.
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