Voting on your Phone ?

Of course, there will be initial “ teething troubles “ , as reported in :

Voting on Your Phone: New Elections App Ignites Security Debate 

Extract :

A start-up called Voatz says it has developed an app that would allow users to vote securely from anywhere in the world — the electoral version of a moonshot.

Thousands are set to use the app in this year’s elections, a small but growing experiment that could pave the way for a wider acceptance of mobile voting

At the far edge of that debate are systems that let users cast their ballots over the internet, including the platform built by Voatz, the only voting app on the market.

Voatz says its technology has overcome the security problems through biometrics and other measures built into newer smartphones, as well as a back-end system that records and stores votes on a blockchain, the technology underpinning Bitcoin.

It also says its platform creates a paper trail for election officials and the voters using the app

Now, it is poised to expand its reach in the presidential election as a number of additional states consider whether to use it for some categories of absentee voters.

The app “is not perfect — nothing is — and security is always a concern for us,” said Donald Kersey, a senior election official in West Virginia.

“ But this is about using new technologies that give us a way to make sure  people who maybe can’t always vote have that opportunity.”

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In Aug 2018 , I wrote :

Americans call it “ Voatz “

Chief Election Commissioner , Shri Sunil Aroraji is not perturbed with the reported security issues in the  use of Voatz

He knows too well that even 20 years after the launch of various Operating Systems by software giants like Google and Apple , software bugs keep turning up ! And promptly get corrected !

And not a day passes without some clever hacker breaking into the mobile apps of Amazon – Facebook – Twitter etc., and stealing personal data of millions of users !

Yet, not one user has filed a court case so far against these Social Media giants ( may be because, he has no way to know that his personal data has been stolen . And even if he knew, he just does not have $ 10 million to spend on a court case ! )

But that has not stopped 2 billion people from using WhatsApp , despite its vulnerability !

That is why , Shri Aroraji is collaborating with IIT – Chennai to launch a mobile app ( - superior to Voatz ? ) , to ensure that all 950 million Indian Voters can cast their votes in 2024 general elections , from anywhere in the world

For details of Shri Aroraji’s plan , read :

From “ Lost Votes “ to “ Remote Votes “ ?            [ 12 Feb 2020 ]

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15  Feb  2020

hcp@RecruitGuru.com