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Delaware piloting new internet-based voting system for disabled, overseas voters

Posted on May 1, 2020

Originally published May 1, 2020 by Delaware Public Media
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Outside a polling place in Delaware where signs direct voters to the voting booths

Delaware is piloting an internet-based voting system for people with physical disabilities and others voting absentee in the June primaries that CDS Director Beth Mineo says can provide a convenient, private way to cast a ballot. Mineo cautions that the system, designed by Democracy Live and using Amazon Web Services secure cloud technology, must be trusted or else the votes of people with disabilities may be called into question. While Delaware Elections Commissioner Anthony Albence describes the system as "ideal," cybersecurity experts contend any online-based system is vulnerable to hacking.

Read the full story from Delaware Public Media here.

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