The Left: 'Hold Muh Beer'
11-09-20 7:00 AM 2020 ELECTION
2020 was the first-ever presidential election where people cast votes via smartphone
Security concerns abound about mobile voting company Voatz. But election officials who use them say they’re no riskier than the current methods we use for some special cases of voting.
BY TALIB VISRAM 7 MINUTE READ
"Vance Woolley, a resident of Saratoga Springs in the Utah Valley, was suddenly called to a family emergency in Texas right before Election Day. He’d planned to have his family’s ballots Fed-Exed over (Utah largely votes by mail), but they didn’t arrive by the time the morning of November 3 rolled in. He called Utah County’s election office, and they swiftly offered them a simple contingency: They could vote using their smartphones.
"Citizens in Utah, Colorado, West Virginia, and other spots around the country have previously used a mobile app, Voatz, to cast their ballots in statewide elections, but this marks the first time people have used the technology to vote in a presidential contest…."
(moar: https://www.fastcompany.com/90572855/2020-was-the-first-ever-presidential-election-where-people-cast-votes-via-smartphone )
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