in public elections?
What is your party also?
I favor the availability of online ballot casting for at least voting citizens under the following special circumstances if not to the general registered voter public:
1. in military
2. elderly
3. disabled
4. low-income
5. invalid
6. in hospital
7. in mental institution
8. in traveling occupations as trainman, truck driver, ship captain and airline pilot
9. college students away from home
10. those on jury duty
Online voting:
-saves money
-saves paper and postage stamps
-saves energy, keeps gas-burning cars off the road
-saves time
-saves resources
-saves the planet from pollution
-saves the infrastructure from congestion
-is a super incentive for many American citizens to
even vote if this method were made available
I think
1. A Hard Copy of the Vote must exist.
2. In Person Identity Verification must exist.
3. The voting process must be secure.
Therefore, I question the assumption that a significant time, energy, resource, etc. savings occurs in such a system or that a significant additional incentive exists for Americans to vote.
Electronic submission of votes does exist in some states.
http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/internet-voting.aspx
Concerns include:
Privacy: electronic submission is not fully anonymous.
Security: the voters electronic device may not be secure.
Denial of Service Attacks: online systems can be overloaded to prevent votes from going through.
Auditability: cyber attacks may be undetectable.
Authentication: the identity of the voter must be verifiable.
Additional Burden: Each online ballot must be duplicated by Election Officials anyways.