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It’s Time To Stop the Spread of Covid-19 ….. By Embracing Mobile Voting
Poll Workers in France Taking Extra Precautions It may look self-serving to write this article. Still, during this time of health risk, I am reminded of one of the reasons we started this company - to enable those who were disadvantaged by means, health, or location, to be able to exercise their right to vote! [...]
Creating A Mobile Voting Revolution – Podcast
Votem CEO, Pete Martin, joins Nathaniel Pearlman for a session on "The Great Battlefield" podcast to talk about how Votem is building a blockchain online voting platform to make voting easier, more secure, and verifiable. http://www.resistancedashboard.com/node/570
Election Day 2018: A View from the Polls
Election Day 2018: A View from the Polls As a voting technology company, helping our partners deliver high-integrity, secure elections is our mission. Our goal is to make heroes out of our customers, and to effectively do that, we need to understand every aspect of their job. We feel the best way to learn is [...]
Onwrd Podcast: Secure Elections with Jeffrey Stern of Votem
Listen to the podcast! What are the headwinds and tailwinds to the work Votem is doing? Why is Votem focused on secure and accessible voting? How is Votem improving voting for voters? election officials? What is the impact and feedback from elections run Votem's platform? This podcast features Jeffrey Stern of Votem, [...]
Vote of Confidence: The Problem with Paper
All voting systems should be held to the highest possible standard. However, there is a discrepancy in the standards applied to paper and electronic systems. While paper is familiar and tangible, paper’s proponents promote its use and advantages without carefully considering its flaws and limitations, despite applying the most rigorous scrutiny to electronic systems without [...]
Vote of Confidence: Coercion in Context
Coercion in Context The risk of voter coercion (voter interference, bribery, vote selling) exists when a voter can demonstrate how they have voted in a given election. It’s a difficult risk to mitigate because robust election systems have to reconcile privacy and security requirements that both guarantee the correctness of election results and the [...]
Vote of Confidence: Voting for the Ages
Vote of Confidence: Voting for the Ages This past Tuesday, a bill was submitted to the DC Council that would lower the District’s voting age in all elections to 16. If passed, the bill would allow 16 and 17-year-olds to vote in everything from local to federal contests. With Congress having the final [...]
Vote of Confidence: Who Paper Hurts the Most
Vote of Confidence: Who Paper Hurts the Most Last week, we explored why the arguments for paper-based voting systems don’t stand up as well as they may seem. As previously stated in this series, paper certainly resolves some of the most pressing issues with today’s outdated voting machines but a regression to exclusively [...]
Vote of Confidence: The Mobile Doubters and Paper (Voting) Tigers
Vote of Confidence: The Mobile Doubters and Paper (Voting) Tigers In 1920, The New York Times famously made the contention that “no rocket will ever leave the earth’s atmosphere.” In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into orbit, smashing the Times’ prediction and launching the world’s two major powers into a space [...]
Vote of Confidence: Blockchain Voting
Vote of Confidence: Blockchain Voting Last week, we devoted “Vote of Confidence” to the “impending crisis” facing the American voting infrastructure. The logical answer to such an article would be a set of solutions or recommendations to avoid this impending crisis. Many such an article was written, especially as we are continually [...]