… A start-up called Voatz says it has developed an app that would allow users to vote securely from anywhere in the world — the electoral version of a moonshot. Thousands are set to use the app in this year’s elections, a small but growing experiment that could pave the […] Read more »
Faith in Elections in Relatively Short Supply in U.S.
Although their faith has been shaken for some time, Americans are heading into their next presidential election with relatively little confidence in the honesty of the process. Four in 10 Americans (40%) interviewed in 2019 said they are confident in the honesty of elections in the country, while the majority […] Read more »
The First Town to Vote
New Hampshire is the first state to vote in the primaries, and for years Dixville Notch claimed to be be the first township to vote in the nation, casting their ballots at midnight. … Jack Rodolico and investigative reporter Casey McDermott uncover the history of this midnight vote, and explain […] Read more »
The Iowa Democratic Caucus: Why Elections Need To Be Fully and Independently Audited
… While it’s not necessarily surprising that there are errors and inconsistencies in the current tabulation reports from the Iowa Democratic caucuses, the issue is that we may never get a clear, trustworthy, and accurate tabulation of the caucus results. … And I keep scratching my head, wondering why, given […] Read more »
He complained about Democrats’ tech ‘morass’ — then built the Iowa app
The CEO of the tech startup at the center of the Iowa caucus debacle complained last year that critical parts of the Democrats’ election technology were a “shitshow” and a “tangled morass.” He said he wanted to fix things. CONT. Issie Lapowsky, Protocol Read more »
Iowa caucuses did one thing right: Require paper ballots
Paper ballots – the key to reconstructing what happened in Iowa. AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar Herbert Lin, Stanford University As the confusion that was the Iowa caucuses unfolds, there will be a lot of questions about what happened and how to avoid it in the future. But the results, ultimately, […] Read more »