31 Mar 2020
Democratic Audit – None of us know for certain whether any vote we’ve ever cast in any election was counted. In the absence of being able to physically see a ballot paper proceed through the system to the point when it’s counted on election night, we, instead, rely on trust that the system is working.
Read more10 Dec 2019
Washington: Online voting not coming soon, officials say | Jacob Mulliken/Messenger-Inquirer The discussion about a digitized polling system has election officials and experts throughout the nation stepping up to avoid a potentially crippling move for the American electoral system, said Secretary of State-elect Michael Adams. “I think concerns, especially surrounding hacking, are well-founded right now,” […]
Read more8 Oct 2019
WR – New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, has called for online voting to be trialed in future elections
Read more22 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.
Read more8 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 more3 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 more22 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 more13 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 more8 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 more2 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.
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