The advice from cybersecurity experts is unanimous: Internet voting is a bad idea.
Two years ago a group of computer security professors and professionals began meeting at the University of California Berkeley with the goal of at least setting a baseline list of standards for how ballots could, down the road, be safely returned online.
The working group was funded by a man named Bradley Tusk, Uber’s first political adviser, who has been the driving force in pushing internet voting forward the past few years — even as the rest of the voting community moves in the opposite direction, toward paper-based voting systems.
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