Glad to see @NASSorg vote to sunset a 10 y/o resolution supporting exploring technology for electronic ballot return for military voters, aka internet voting.
It's progress, but kind of a day late/$ short considering how many states moved to online voting in the last decade...1/
It's progress, but kind of a day late/$ short considering how many states moved to online voting in the last decade...1/
despite strong security warnings from computer security experts and @NIST for the past 10 years. It's lamentable that so many of the state election officials dismissed warnings from NIST and computer security experts for years allowing insecure internet voting to proliferate. 2/
In the 2018 midterms, with incomplete data, we know that at a bare minimum, well over 140K were cast online and we can expect that that number will be much, much higher in the 2020. Other countries like France and Norway promptly cancelled all online voting following the ...3/
Russian hacking revelations in 2016 but we've done next to nothing. A few months ago @CISAgov finally issued a risk-assessment that warned that online voting was high risk for hacking even w/today's security tools but this is too little too late to impact all the States that...4/
currently allow online voting for some subset of voters and secure this significant vulnerability in our election systems. end.
