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September 11, 2020 81 mins

The Distributed States of America: A Prologue to Remote Electronic Voting in the U.S.

Marten Kaevats

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marten-kaevats-80098990/?originalSubdomain=ee


E-estonia

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


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/


America’s Federalist Government

http://www.pbs.org/tpt/constitution-usa-peter-sagal/federalism/

https://www.ushistory.org/gov/3.asp


Distributed Systems

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/18909/distributed-system


GDPR (General Data Protection Act)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation


Stasi - What Marten Referred to as the “East German FBI” during Soviet occupation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi

China and Data Privacy

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/05/793014617/in-china-a-new-call-to-protect-data-privacy


Shoshana Zuboff - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

https://www.amazon.com/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Frontier/dp/1610395697


Unicorn Companies in Estonia

https://www.marketline.com/blog/estonia-only-1-3m-people-but-4-unicorn-start-ups/


Kersti Kaljulaid - President of Estonia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kersti_Kaljulaid


Verification of Absentee/Mailed Ballots in the United States

https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/How-States-Verify-AbsenteeMailed-Ballots.png


History of the Secret Ballot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_ballot


Nimit Sawhney, Co-Founder & Ceo of Voatz

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

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

  • Estonia’s e-identity Program

    https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-identity/id-card/


    U.S. Estonia Relations

    https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-estonia/

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