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Online Voting Has Worked So Far. That Doesn’t Mean It’s Safe

May 12, 2020

Via: Wired

WEST VIRGINIA STATE delegate Eric Porterfield is blind and usually votes at a polling place using an accessible voting machine. He would need assistance to fill out a regular mail-in paper ballot, reducing his ability to keep his votes private. But thanks to a state law passed in January to address accessible remote voting, Porterfield has a new alternative for his state’s June 9 primary. For the first time, he plans to submit his absentee ballot online.

“The gold standard for you or me or anyone is to be able to fulfill our constitutional right to vote by private ballot,” Porterfield says.

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