At the county level, they deal with governments and employees.
The number one question he is asked, said Masterson, is why not I-voting? Society expects it. We do everything else online, including adopting children, filing tax returns, and even purchasing homes, sight unseen.
He called HAVA technology "old hardware--dependent," when it's time for independence. The new direction should involve commercial over-the-counter software (COTS); equipment shouldn't sit in storage all year but be replaced by iPads, which can perform a range of tasks, just as Halderman's team was able to program the Sequoia Advantage machinery to run a Pac-man game.
In another realm, election officials want to intervene in another problem area: 60 percent of military and other Americans who live overseas can't vote successfully. Email voting is a risk he's willing to take.
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Costis Toregas, next to speak, is associate director of
CSPRI and a graduate-level instructor of public administration. His answer to
the question whether this country is ready to vote? He turned to an unlikely
analogue, the Internet voting done to select winners in the tv show "American
Idol." As many as 120 million Americans vote in the last round, though voting
more than once is permitted.
The voting is done via AT&T texting, Facebook, or dialing a toll-free 800 number.
As a humanist, he opined that this country is ready for
I-voting. The issue is cyber security versus risk management, and lowering the
level of the latter to an acceptable figure.
Interdisciplinary tasking can accomplish this, Toregas said.
That is the bottom line of CSPRI--the coming together of the administrative,
technological, and industrial. All three must respond to user input.
Wearing yet another hat, as chief election judge in an area of Maryland adjacent to the District, he said that poll workers are not yet "up to speed" in technology. As volunteers at the old side of the age spectrum, they use low-speed modems to transmit results to the county.
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