Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, August 7th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, voting via app will be tested during the midterms.

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streaming video wars. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. The state of West Virginia is going to introduce mobile phone voting just in time for the

upcoming midterm elections.

West Virginia military personnel

and service members overseas will be the first in the country

to cast federal election ballots

using a smartphone app from a company called

votes. V-O-A-T-Z.

Quote, there is nobody that deserves the right to vote any more than the guys that are out

there and the women that are out there putting

their lives on the line for us West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner said

on the votes platform the ballots are anonymized and put on a blockchain-based public Votes platform was tested in two counties during primary elections earlier this year and apparently the tests went off without a hitch.

But this is controversial nonetheless.

Quoting now from CNN Tech, mobile voting is a horrific idea.

Joseph Lorenzo Hall, the chief technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology, told CNN in an email.

It's internet voting on people's horribly secured devices over our horrible networks to servers that are very difficult to secure without a physical paper record of the vote."

Marion K. Schneider, president of the Election Integrity Watchdog Group, verified voting was even

more blunt.

Asked if she thought mobile voting is a good idea, she said, the short answer is no even if the votes app is secure

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