October 2023 - Casting Votes Safely: Examining Internet Voting’s Dangers and

Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy (2018) National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine In its 2018 consensus report, Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine stated bluntly: At the present time, the Internet (or any network connected to the Internet) should not be used for the return of marked ballots. [...] Further, Internet voting should not be used in the future until and unless very robust guarantees of security and verifiability are developed and in place, as no known technology guarantees the secrecy, security, and verifiability of a marked ballot transmitted over the Internet.6 Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on Russian Interference (2019) U. [...] In 2009, the MOVE Act expanded UOCAVA29 to require states to send ballots to eligible voters 45 days prior to Election Day and to offer electronic transmission of blank ballots to military and overseas voters.30 UOCAVA voters who choose to have ballots delivered electronically are more likely to actually receive their ballots than those who choose to have them delivered via postal mail.31 In 2020,. [...] However, even in the most recent presidential election, voters with disabilities experienced difficulty voting in person at about twice the level of voters without disabilities.44 During the 2022 federal election period, hundreds of voters called the Election Protection hotline about polling place access issues; the number was nearly one thousand in 2020.45 In the May 2023 primary in Philadelphia—. [...] S., finding that 66% of voters with access to a household car voted in person on Election Day in the 2018 general election, while only 36% of voters without access to a car voted.68 People with disabilities are even less likely than people without disabilities to own 62 Other barriers to verification include the inability to print ballots in languages other than English and the encoding of voters’.