Japan to test online voting for overseas citizens
22 Jul 2019
The Japan Times – The internal affairs ministry will test online voting for Japanese citizens living abroad in an effort to raise voter turnout among such people in elections.
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Canada – N.W.T. to be 1st province or territory to use online voting in general election
8 Jul 2019
CBC – In a move to increase voter turnout, the Northwest Territories will soon become the first jurisdiction in Canada to use online voting in a provincial or territorial election.
Read moreConservative leadership candidate backs online voting for elections
3 Jul 2019
WebRoots Democracy – During a Twitter question and answer session, Conservative leadership candidate and current Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt MP, said that enabling people to vote online in elections “must be possible”.
Read moreExperts Find Serious Problems With Switzerland’s Online Voting System Before Public Penetration Test Even Begins
22 Mar 2019
MotherBoard – Switzerland made headlines this month for the transparency of its internet voting system when it launched a public penetration test and bug bounty program to test the resiliency of the system to attack.
Read moreNSW election: technical problems down online voting and disrupt pre-poll booths
13 Mar 2019
The Guardian: A series of technical issues have disrupted early voting for the New South Wales election, with the online voting system taken offline and a computer problem disrupting voting at pre-poll booths on Wednesday.
Read moreBlockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy
8 Nov 2018
arsTECHNICA: If you talk to experts on election security (I studied with several of them in graduate school) they’ll tell you that we’re nowhere close to being ready for online voting. “Mobile voting is a horrific idea,” said election security expert Joe Hall when I asked him about a West Virginia experiment with blockchain-based mobile voting back in August.
Read moreEnd online voting — it’s not worth the risk
2 Nov 2018
KitchenerPost: Online voting has been used in Canada for about 15 years, but you’d never know it judging by the most recent municipal election.
Read morePlans for online voting at local govt elections ‘dangerous’ (New Zealand)
25 Sep 2018
RNZ: An Australian IT expert says New Zealand would be crazy to adopt online voting for local government elections and would be opening itself up to widespread electoral fraud.
Read moreIn Georgia, a legal battle over electronic vs. paper voting
17 Sep 2018
Washington Post: Logan Lamb, a cybersecurity sleuth, thought he was conducting an innocuous Google search to pull up information on Georgia’s centralized system for conducting elections….
Read more(Switzerland) Opponents of e-voting suffer setback in parliament
17 Sep 2018
Expatica: Parliament has thrown out attempts to stall the permanent introduction of electronic voting – a decision welcomed by the Organisation of the Swiss Abroad (OSA).
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