Voter ID and Voting Rights
In Election Attitude – How Internet Voting Leads to a Stronger Democracy, I wrote about voter registration. There have been multiple bills to make it easier to register to vote and multiple bills to make it harder. In this post, I offer a point of view on this. It is not intended to be political. […]
2017 – The Year of Telehealth
Telehealth is transforming medicine. The pace will accelerate in 2017 and the rapid adoption is presenting many questions to what I call the four Ps. Patients. The WSJ reported the American Telemedicine Association has counted more than 15 million Americans having received some kind of medical care remotely. The ATA expects the number to grow […]
College Students See Blockchain Voting In Their Future
Kaspersky Lab, a global cybersecurity company based in Massachusetts and the U.K., hosted a competition for college students interested in Internet voting. The motivation was in part due to recent concerns of rigged or hacked voting. Approximately 20 colleges across the U.S. and U.K. took part. A team from New York University took first place with a solution blending old […]
Wisconsin Election Recount: Why We Need Internet Voting
The Wisconsin recount effort did not have any effect on the outcome. It did confirm a lot of what I wrote in Election Attitude – How Internet Voting Leads to a Stronger Democracy. The naysayers are concerned about the integrity and accuracy of using Internet voting. They refuse to compare it to the paper based […]
Internet Voting in Canada
Canadians can see the benefits of Internet voting in their municipal elections. There were 12 municipalities who used it in the 2003 elections. The number grew to 97 in 2014. It is expected to be 200 municipalities in 2018. The Hanover council, in Ontario, Canada, has given the green light for telephone and Internet voting in […]
