[EL] Internet Voting in Canada

[Michael McDonald]

We actually do have internet voting in the U.S. As of this morning, 280 overseas civilian and military ballots have been returned via e-mail and accepted by North Carolina election officials. 6 have been faxed.

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From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of wjk
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 3:15 PM
To: law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
Subject: [EL] Internet Voting in Canada Reply to Good ol' Joe


Good ol’ Joe can do some incredibly tough name calling over the Internet. Wow, dude – you’re a gutsy guy!

Getting back to the election law issues, over 40 cities in Canada have used Internet voting (after changing their laws to accommodate it). If good ol’ Joe’s 'scientifically validated' statement were true, then the entire nation of Canada must be smoking something. This would have to include Elections Canada, the agency that runs national elections, because, as I show in my first article, they want to offer Internet voting for all national elections. 

Joe’s slightly exaggerated claim is emotion-based rather than factual. He appears to be fully caught up in the Moral Panic over the supposed insecurity of Internet voting – a Moral Panic that is uniquely American.

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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:41:02 -0400
From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [EL] Canada?s National Debate over Internet Voting
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I don't often feed trolls, but when I do, I prefer them to be William Kelleher.

Suffice it to say that every single technical expert you can find will
advise vociferously against internet voting at this time.

That is all and sorry for unusual snark from me.

best, Joe

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 2:17 PM, wjk <wjkellpro at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Canada?s National Debate over Internet Voting: Part Three - The Drum Beat
> Grows Louder for Internet Voting in Canada
> http://ivn.us/tomorrows-democracy/2012/09/17/canadas-national-debate-over-internet-voting-part-3/
> "Big Mo," as campaign directors say, is in favor of Internet voting in
> Canada. Even Native Canadians are doing it! Check out the first two posts,
> too!
>
> More to come on security issues ?
>
> William J. Kelleher, Ph.D.
> Political Scientist, author, speaker,
> CEO for The Internet Voting Research and Education Fund
> a CA Nonprofit Foundation
> 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
>