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Bischoff, John

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This is Future Tense for Thursday, July 13th. I'm John Bischoff in for Jon Gordon. Today, is the world safe for internet voting? Arizona's Democratic Party made history in March when it held the country's first binding election allowing votes to be cast over the Internet. But a new report says that election was vulnerable to hacker attacks and vote manipulation. It also says the election failed to protect the secrecy of ballots. The Voting Integrity Project, a non-partisan non-profit organization, is suing Arizona's Democratic Party for allegedly violating the Voting Rights Act. VIP says the Internet is still a fundamentally unsafe space for holding elections. Organization Chair Deborah Phillips says most people don't know how to safeguard their PCs to the degree necessary to use them as polling machines. And she says the Internet itself holds threats:
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