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Why the United States Isn't Ready for Online Voting

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VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The mechanics of voting really hasn’t changed since the dawn of democracy. People line up, mark a ballot for their candidate and then leave.


But in today’s pandemic, the lines for the Wisconsin primary illustrated the legitimate dangers of having thousands of people line up with one another to vote. Likewise, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo delayed his state’s primaries from April to June for the same reason.


All of this forces us to ask the question: In an age where everything is done online, why aren’t we voting from our phones this November?


Of course, that brings in a ton of cybersecurity questions, so this week we have Motherboard reporter Lorenzo Franceschi Bicchierai on to discuss what that might actually look like.



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0:00.0

Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.

0:10.7

It's a unit system.

0:13.1

I know this.

0:15.1

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.3

It tells her everything.

0:19.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.6

The Eagle one. The package is being delivered.

0:24.6

The mechanics of voting really hasn't changed since the dawn of democracy.

0:29.6

People line up, mark a ballot for their candidate, and then leave.

0:32.6

But in today's pandemic, the lines for the Wisconsin primary

0:36.6

illustrated the legitimate dangers

0:38.5

of having thousands of people line up with one another to vote.

0:41.8

This morning, people in Wisconsin have a tough choice to make, protect their health by following

0:46.6

the state's stay-at-home order, or exercise their right to vote.

0:50.6

That's because after a day of chaos and confusion, Wisconsin primary is actually back

0:55.6

on today. Take a look at how long the lines already are in Milwaukee. A voters waiting to cast their

1:01.6

ballots. Likewise, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo delayed his state's primaries from April to June

1:07.0

for the same reason. All of this forces us to ask the question, in an age where everything

1:11.8

is done online, why aren't we voting from our phones this November? Of course, that brings in a ton of

1:18.2

cybersecurity questions. So this week, we have motherboard reporter Lorenzo Franceschi Bikirai on to discuss

1:24.2

what that might actually look like. I'm Ben Maku, and some of the things that have come out of it are, you know, what are we going to do come November 2020 when the entire country needs to vote for a president. And obviously we've seen,

2:04.2

you know, this Wisconsin lineup. This is just, this is untenable in a situation where we need

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