[EL] Contrasting Advice Given Obama over Election Law Reform

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Contrasting Advice Given Obama over Election Law Reform
 
Return to the Past:
The use of paper ballots counted by optical scan machines has proven to be effective … 
 
Adding privacy booths for marking paper ballots is far less expensive than purchasing new DREs [to shorten lines].
 
… we strongly recommend Federal legislation to prohibit Internet transmission of cast (marked) ballots in Federal elections and to encourage local governments to replace aging DRE voting systems with paper ballots tabulated by precinct-based optical scan machines.
Barbara Simons, Kim Alexander, et al
(Cited at http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45190)
 
 
Forge Ahead:
A recent New York Times opinion mentioned a fabulous challenge by Harvard Prof Keyssar – President Obama should call up a Federal Election Tribunal to investigate whether or not Internet voting can securely enhance the democratic process in the USA! 
 
The last presidential commission on Internet voting was called by Bill Clinton in 1999. A lot has changed in this technology since then. 
 
Our election system is in decline compared to the world leaders. In Canada over 40 cities have used it w/o security incidents. Elections Canada wants it for federal elections. Estonia uses it. Cantons in Switzerland, overseas voters for France and Mexico City, and the largest state in India, Gujarat, have used it. West Virginia and Arizona have, too. 
 
Please call up a new Presidential Commission on the Use of Internet Voting in the USA.
http://internetvotingforall.blogspot.com/2012/12/obama-we-have-to-fix-that.html
 
William J. Kelleher, Ph.D.
Political Scientist, author, speaker,
CEO for The Internet Voting Research and Education Fund 
Email: Internetvoting at gmail.com 
Blog: http://tinyurl.com/IV4All 
Twitter: wjkno1
 
Author of Internet Voting Now!  
Kindle edition: http://tinyurl.com/IntV-Now 
In paper: http://tinyurl.com/IVNow2011 
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