If Not Now, When? Voatz Strives To Bring The Ballot Box To The Smartphone
Voatz
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
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
Hart InterCivic
https://dev17.hartintercivic.com/
Dominion Voting
MicroVote
https://www.microvote.com/home.html
Election Systems & Software
Unisyn Voting Solutions
Vulnerabilities In Legacy Voting Equipment and Systems
NPR’s Article about Mail-In Voting Referenced by Nimit
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
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)
November 3, 2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election
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