MIT Security Analysis of “Voatz” App [pdf]

> . Speaking to the Harvard Business Review, Voatz backer and political philanthropist Bradley Tusk stated: It’s not that the cybersecurity people are bad people per se. I think it’s that they are solving for one situation, and I am solving for another. They want zero technology risk in any way, shape, or form.

I think the goal should be that there's not a net increase in risk of election tampering by moving from vote technology A to vote technology B.

I am inclined to think that the peak might be filling out paper ballots to be read by machines (penciling in ovals/scantron).

If we want to improve turnout, we should try some existing ideas that are much less novel and risky: offer early voting, make elections a holiday or hold them on a weekend. Or make it compulsory.