College Students See Blockchain Voting In Their Future

Kaspersky Lab, a global cybersecurity company based in Massachusetts and the U.K., hosted a competition for college students interested in Internet voting. The motivation was in part due to recent concerns of rigged or hacked voting. Approximately 20 colleges across the U.S. and U.K. took part. A team from New York University took first place with a solution blending old […]

Were All the Votes Counted?

I will be giving a talk about Internet voting at the Danbury, CT Public Library on Sunday, December 4 at 3 PM. Stories are appearing in the media everyday about some aspect of our voting system. Politicians who did not win are questioning the accuracy of the voting system. All of us should be asking […]

Internet Voting – Do We Need It?

Mindy Moretti is the editor at Electionline.org, the nation’s only nonpartisan, non-advocacy clearinghouse for election reform news and information. In her current weekly update, called “The Election That Was”, she takes a state-by-state look at the 2016 General Election. She wrote, “The 2016 election cycle seemed to drag on forever and even today [November 17] […]

Internet Voting – Advantages and Challenges

This is the second of a series of eight video clips from my interview about Internet voting at Thomson Reuters in New York City  in August 2016 (watch all eight here). Many Americans are asking why we can’t vote on the Internet. It is a very logical question. Our registration and voting system has numerous problems. During the November 8 […]

Early Results on Voter Participation

Approximately 125 million votes have been counted so far. In 2012, 129 million votes were counted. Since 2012, the population grew 11 million. Registered voters skyrocketed from 153 million in 2012 to 200 million in 2016. Voter participation as a % of registered voters declined (again). It already ranked 31 out of 34 developed countries. In 2012, 84% of […]