[EL] “Utah Republicans are holding a first-ever online presidential primary. And it’s not going so well.”

[Steve Hoersting]

What's that Shakespeare quote?... About "rot[]" and "Denmark"? (asks this
(modest) Ted Cruz donor).

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message3126238/pg1?disclaimer=1

http://www.wired.com/2016/03/security-experts-arent-going-like-utahs-online-primary/

Not sure these processes are yet ready for prime time.


On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Sean Parnell <
sean at impactpolicymanagement.com> wrote:

> I’m in the skeptic camp regarding online voting, and the article cited
> below I think helps to explain some of that skepticism, BUT I think this is
> an answer to the rhetorical question that Rick and perhaps others
> occasionally pose, “What possible defense is there for holding caucuses?”
> (that’s my paraphrase, not a direct quote). The fact that caucuses are
> wholly independent of state regulation (at least I’m pretty sure that’s the
> case) gives them the freedom to innovate and explore new ways to vote and
> participate in the political process. It would be a sad day, I think, if
> political innovation were snuffed out because some sort of
> one-size-fits-all solution to very real voting problems were imposed by the
> state, effectively eliminating these sorts of experimentations.
>
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> Sean Parnell
>
> President, Impact Policy Management LLC
>
> Alexandria, Virginia
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> 571-289-1374
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> sean at impactpolicymanagement.com
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>
> “Utah Republicans are holding a first-ever online presidential primary.
> And it’s not going so well.” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81143>
>
> Posted on March 22, 2016 7:25 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81143> by *Rick
> Hasen* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> WaPo
> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/22/utah-republicans-are-holding-a-first-ever-online-primary-and-its-not-going-so-well/?postshare=3511458699560427&tid=ss_tw>
> :
>
> *Unfortunately, Utah’s digital election night doesn’t seem to be going as
> smoothly as Utah Republicans had hoped.*
>
> *While Utah Republicans headed to their caucus in person on Tuesday
> evening, anyone who had registered online by March 17 can log on
> to utah.gop to vote between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. local time and cast their
> vote. But the Deseret News reports
> <http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865650643/Utah-GOP-voters-encounter-troubles-voting-online.html> some
> voters got error messages when they tried to navigate beyond the first
> page.*
>
> *“I must have tried eight or nine times without success,” Greg Ericksen
> told the newspaper.*
>
> *Others say they got stuck on the candidate page and couldn’t cast their
> ballot. And still others say they got confused by links to the candidates’
> bios, thinking a click meant they were voting for a certain candidate only
> to find they were suddenly on a different website.*
>
> *As of Tuesday night, party officials said about 10,000 of the 40,000
> Utahns who applied to vote online were rejected because their IDs couldn’t
> be verified. In an interview with the Salt Lake Tribune
> <http://www.sltrib.com/news/3694691-155/utah-gops-online-voting-experiment-has>,
> GOP Party Chairman Evans seemed to suggest the error was on the user end:
> “Primarily it was people thinking they were approved to vote online [but
> were not],” Evans said. “The other category were people who received their
> PIN and it went to their spam folder or they just deleted it.”*
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