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16 Oct

Historic Milestone: First Ranked Choice Mobile Blockchain Vote in U.S. Election History (10/16/19)

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Historic Milestone: First Ranked Choice Mobile Blockchain Vote in U.S. Election History (10/16/19)

We are delighted to announce that a little piece of US election history was created on October 16, 2019 when the first ever ranked choice vote was recorded on a mobile blockchain voting platform. The ballot was cast by a UOCAVA voter from Payson City in Utah County. Update: (11/24/19) – The Associated Press/Salt Lake Tribune has more here about the RCV pilot in Utah County. Here’s an earlier post on how the Voatz platform supports Ranked Choice Voting in a highly accessible manner. We are excited to see the expansion of RCV across the nation.

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16 Oct

Mobile Voting Expands to Jackson County and Umatilla County in Oregon

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Mobile Voting Expands to Jackson County and Umatilla County in Oregon

We are delighted to announce the launch of new pilot programs with Jackson County and Umatilla County in Oregon that will provide mobile voting secured by the blockchain to deployed military personnel and overseas United States citizens during the 2019 general elections this year. We commend Jackson County and Umatilla County teams for seeking new, innovative technologies to improve our election infrastructure and provide secure, auditable, transparent voting options for voters. With this pilot program, Jackson County and Umatilla County are leading the effort in the State of Oregon to make voting more convenient and accessible for deployed military personnel and overseas US citizens. The latest developments in smartphone hardware, […]

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16 Oct

Utah County Expands Mobile Voting to Include Voters With Disabilities

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Utah County Expands Mobile Voting to Include Voters With Disabilities

We are delighted to announce that Utah County has broadened the eligibility in the ongoing mobile voting pilot as part of the 2019 Municipal General Elections to include voters with disabilities, marking the first time mobile voting will be offered to U.S. citizens other than military and overseas voters. “This is the first election where we are expanding mobile voting for the disability community and providing them the option to vote from their mobile device,” said Bradley Tusk, founder and CEO of Tusk Philanthropies. “We are making voting accessible to new communities, increasing voter turnout, conducting new pilots and auditing that each election to ensure that votes cast over the blockchain […]

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3 Oct

When You Vote, How Do You Know It Counts?

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When You Vote, How Do You Know It Counts?

When you vote, do you trust that your vote is counted? If you mail an absentee ballot, how do you know that it’s been received and counted accurately? Our mission is to make voting not only more accessible and secure, but also more transparent, auditable and accountable. How do we do that? We’ve built a way for voting to happen on the thing that many of you carry around in your pocket each day — your smartphone. Here, we share how it works for you, as the voter, to vote with your smartphone, how you can verify that your vote was counted, and how your Election Office can verify that all […]

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3 Oct

Cycle #3 of Our Bug Bounty Program

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No technology is perfect, and Voatz believes that working with skilled security researchers across the globe is crucial in identifying weaknesses in any technology. If you believe you’ve found a security issue in our product or service, we encourage you to notify us via our public bug bounty program – a first in the elections industry. We welcome working with you to resolve the issue promptly. Disclosure Policy Let us know as soon as possible upon discovery of a potential security issue, and we’ll make every effort to quickly resolve the issue. Provide us a reasonable amount of time to resolve the issue before any disclosure to the public or a […]

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1 Oct

Statement on Intrusion Attempt During WV Election

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Voatz confirms that on October 25, 2018, there was an unsuccessful attempt to gain entry into the Voatz system during the West Virginia mobile voting pilot for the 2018 U.S. Federal Midterm Election. The attempt was detected, blocked and reported in detail to the West Virginia Secretary of State’s Office. We want to re-emphasize that this attempt targeted our live system and not our replica system made available to researchers as part of our Bug Bounty program. While probes  into IT systems and general infrastructure across the nation are fairly common, as of January 2017, the Department of Homeland Security designated election infrastructure as part of the nation’s critical infrastructure, […]

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