UMBC Researchers Survey Voters About New Voting System

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:35:44 -0500
policy-and-society

On November 8, 2011, absentee voters in Takoma Park, Maryland, will have the option to verify their votes for mayor and city council using a new Internet voting system called Remotegrity. Internet voting has been used to elect government officials before (for example, in Switzerland, Estonia and Norway), but what is new here is that voters mail in paper ballots and use the Internet to independently verify that their votes have been received by the city and recorded correctly. Anyone can check online that the recorded votes were tallied correctly. Dr. Filip Zagorski, computer scientist at The George Washington University, …