By Josh Greenbaum, Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Vote Foundation
So-called “blockchain voting” systems are exceedingly risky and vulnerable to a host of dangerous cybersecurity attacks. The growing hype around the implementation of this technology in elections is a distraction from fundamental...
Blog Source: Election Law Blog posted by Rick Hasen (https://electionlawblog.org/?p=104265)
By Duncan Buell, NCR Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina and Advisor to U.S. Vote Foundation
If you were to ask computing and election security experts for the two...
by Pauline Ugalde - Second in a Series
Reflecting on the 2018 mid-term elections, I decided to write about how I felt my experience as a visually-impaired voter impacted my voting rights. Furthermore, how it complicated what should be a simple process, what my observations were, what feedback I...
This ABSTRACT of the original article, Turnout in Local Elections: Is Timing Really Everything? by Melissa Marschall and John Lappie in the Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy Vol. 17, No. 3 copyright and published by Mary Ann Liebert Publishers, Inc. The complete article is available...
Dear Readers - US Vote is proud to feature this blog from one of the best civic tech solutions developers we've had the honor to meet: R/GA and their brilliant team.
Every American has their own highly-personal reasons for voting. Whether health, family, safety, income, or education, we aren’t...
By Pauline Ugalde
The midterm election season is about to peak and I would like to address the voting process from a unique perspective: that of a first-time, visually-impaired voter and how that initial experience informs my decision to vote again in the upcoming midterm election.
Over the years...
Several startup companies have begun to promote Internet voting systems, this time with a new twist – using a blockchain as the container for voted ballots transmitted from voters’ private devices. Blockchains are a relatively new system category somewhat akin to a distributed database. Proponents promote them as a revolutionary innovation providing strong security guarantees that can render online elections safe from cyber attack.
Unfortunately, such claims are false....
Whoosh! theSkimm has hit the accelerator with their NoExcuses campaign.
In their own words, No Excuses is "theSkimm's nonpartisan campaign aiming to get 100,000 people to vote in the midterm elections. We're not here to tell you who to vote for, we just want to make sure that you vote. Because democracy." And that about says it all.
Approximately 7% of eligible American overseas voters returned their ballots in the 2016 General Election. That's right. Just 7%.
It's a tiny improvement over the 4% level last reported, which we also found quite disappointing.
The Federal Voting Assistance Program's (FVAP) most recent Overseas...