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. […]
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 […]
Internet Voting – Do We Need It?
Mindy Moretti is the editor at Electionline.org, the nation’s only nonpartisan, non-advocacy clearinghouse for election reform news and information. In her current weekly update, called “The Election That Was”, she takes a state-by-state look at the 2016 General Election. She wrote, “The 2016 election cycle seemed to drag on forever and even today [November 17] […]
Internet Voting – Advantages and Challenges
This is the second of a series of eight video clips from my interview about Internet voting at Thomson Reuters in New York City in August 2016 (watch all eight here). Many Americans are asking why we can’t vote on the Internet. It is a very logical question. Our registration and voting system has numerous problems. During the November 8 […]
Early Results on Voter Participation
Approximately 125 million votes have been counted so far. In 2012, 129 million votes were counted. Since 2012, the population grew 11 million. Registered voters skyrocketed from 153 million in 2012 to 200 million in 2016. Voter participation as a % of registered voters declined (again). It already ranked 31 out of 34 developed countries. In 2012, 84% of […]
