If Not Now, When? Voatz Strives To Bring The Ballot Box To The Smartphone

If Not Now, When?  Voatz Strives To Bring The Ballot Box To The Smartphone

Voatz

https://voatz.com/

FAQs https://voatz.com/faq.html

Whitepaper https://www.nass.org/sites/default/files/2018-02/clear-ballot-voatz-white-paper-nass-winter18_4.pdf

Nimit Sawhney, Co-Founder & Ceo of Voatz

https://www.elev8con.com/speaker/nimit-sawhney/

https://cic.com/podcasts/founders-spotlight/voatz

Rock, Paper, Scissors - How We Used to Vote (2008 New Yorker Article by Jill Lepore)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/13/rock-paper-scissors

The American Party

 For those who have seen Martin Scorcese’s Gangs of New York, Bill the Butcher, portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis, was an enforcer in the American Party, whose ruffians attacked the Kyle brothers as they attempted to cast their votes in 1859.

Some Leading Legacy Voting Equipment Companies

Clear Ballot

https://clearballot.com/

Hart InterCivic

https://dev17.hartintercivic.com/

Dominion Voting

https://dominionvoting.com/

MicroVote 

https://www.microvote.com/home.html

Election Systems & Software

https://www.essvote.com/

Unisyn Voting Solutions

https://unisynvoting.com/

Vulnerabilities In Legacy Voting Equipment and Systems

NPR’s Article about Mail-In Voting Referenced by Nimit

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/24/820232540/as-coronavirus-delays-primary-season-states-weigh-expanding-absentee-voting

Hanging Chads and the Florida Election Recount of 2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_recount_in_Florida#Palm_Beach_County's_butterfly_ballots

A Couple of Articles Critical of Mobile Voting Platforms in General & Voatz

https://www.coindesk.com/snake-oil-and-overpriced-junk-why-blockchain-doesnt-fix-online-voting

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-26/cybersecurity-experts-say-hacking-risk-is-high-for-mobile-voting

The February 2020 Iowa Caucuses Debacle (Involved a mobile app made by another company - Shadow Inc. - which was not used to place votes, but report precinct voter tallies)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Iowa_Democratic_presidential_caucuses

Estonia’s i-Voting - The Country of Estonia has successfully implemented nationwide internet voting since 2005

https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-governance/i-voting/

Tivi Remote Voting (Used in Estonia and other countries)

https://tivi.io/

November 3, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election