Every election, I need assistance filling out my ballot due to my physical disability. Would it be secure to permit voters to download and mark a PDF of the paper ballot. Then, use something like Bitwarden Send to securely submit it?
Without fail, someone inevitably helps me on election day, but since I get my ballot by mail, I would like to be able to fill it out sooner—looking up candidate information as I go. If someone helps me at the last minute, I feel rushed.
People transmit extremely sensitive information online every day. And while the security concerns are valid, disallowing individuals to vote online because of this invariably calls into question the transmission of other data. For example, if the Internet is too insecure to vote, why is it then secure enough to apply for a bank account, a drivers license, or government assistance?
Hi Michael,
I can understand your frustration of not being able to vote at your leisure by yourself. I really doubt that the real issue is technical; it is political. In Switzerland, according to a Wikipedia article, they vote by mail. I think US service people abroad also vote by mail. If they can do it, why can’t the rest of US citizens/residents do it? It’s political.
If you can do something about it, you definitely should. If you can’t, and you live in a state that is bent on disenfranchising people, you may be out of luck.
In the United States, we have vote-by-mail, but it varies by state. My state, California, has optional vote-by-mail. Security experts have said the voting over the Internet would be insecure. If secure online voting isn’t possible, then how is anything else transmitted over the Internet secure?
Because Bitwarden Send has end-to-end encryption, would filling out a PDF of the paper ballot and submitting it securely to the Elections Office not be a viable voting method?