Brad, you forgot to mention Jeff Drobman (D), a computer scientist whose campaign for SoS is entirely based on Internet voting.

So is there an answer to the "Why the hell is this guy still a Republican?" I had to read it twice to make sure I had indeed read that he is a Republican.

David Jefferson said:

Brad, you forgot to mention Jeff Drobman (D), a computer scientist whose campaign for SoS is entirely based on Internet voting.

Didn't forget. Just hoping to avoid another lawsuit.

Soul Rebel asked:

So is there an answer to the "Why the hell is this guy still a Republican?"

There is. But you'll have to listen to the show to get it!

David Jefferson @1 wrote:

Jeff Drobman (D), a computer scientist whose campaign for SoS is entirely based on Internet voting

At least with some of the other candidates, support for Internet Voting can be attributed to a profound ignorance of the scientific evidence that establishes that, in the words of U.C. Berkley Computer Science Prof. David Wagner, there "is no known way to audit Internet voting."

But what are we to make of a computer scientist who actually knows this, yet runs on a 'Let's have Internet voting' platform?

Rather amusingly, Drobman links to an article that boasts that "elections using Internet voting have been conducted securely over 100 times, around the world" and that "not ONE of these elections...has had results that were affected by security incidents."

Hmmm! Apparently, neither the D.C. Internet hack nor the recent meltdown in Belgium ever really occurred.

Ernie said @ 5:

Drobman links to an article that boasts that "elections using Internet voting have been conducted securely over 100 times, around the world" and that "not ONE of these elections...has had results that were affected by security incidents."

Hmmm! Apparently, neither the D.C. Internet hack nor the recent meltdown in Belgium ever really occurred.

To be fair, the D.C. Internet hack was of a mock election, set up at the last minute, at the insistence of folks like David Jefferson, just before the system was to be used in a real election. The complete hack of the mock election stopped the system from being used in the real election. It was one of the few times (maybe only time, up until then?) that such a system was opened up publicly for folks to try and disrupt.

The Belgium meltdown was of precinct-based e-voting, versus an Internet election, though, as I note in that same article, the Estonian Internet Voting system (which is likely the source of most of those "100 times" Drobman cites) was found to be completely hackable by White Hat hackers just a few weeks ago, even if they did not do so during the actual voting.

In truth, Drobman has no idea if any of those "100 times" he cites was "affected by security incidents". He's pulling that straight out of his ass. What he means is "...that he knows of". And, of course, that's the problem.

His claim, by the way, is also demonstrably not true. Just look at what happened in Canada in 2012 and, not that Drobman probably included it, but on NBC's The Voice in 2013.