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West Virginia To Introduce Mobile Phone Voting For Midterm Elections (cnn.com)
West Virginians serving overseas will be the first in the country to cast federal election ballots using a smartphone app, a move designed to make voting in November's election easier for troops living abroad. But election integrity and computer security experts expressed alarm at the prospect of voting by phone, and one went so far as to call it "a horrific idea." CNN: The state's decision to pioneer mobile voting comes even as the United States grapples with Russian interference in its elections. A recent federal indictment outlined Russia's attempts to hack US voting infrastructure during the 2016 presidential race, and US intelligence agencies have warned of Russian attempts to interfere with the upcoming midterm election. Still, West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner and Voatz, the Boston company that developed the app, insist it is secure. Anyone using it must first register by taking a photo of their government-issued identification and a selfie-style video of their face, then upload them via the app. Voatz says its facial recognition software will ensure the photo and video show the same person. Once approved, voters can cast their ballot using the Voatz app.
I'm not sure what you are responding to here. I would like to have a citable source.
I quoted what I was responding to. You would like a citeable source.
Repeat after me: an anecdote posted anonymously on slashdot is not a citable source.
Pix or it didn't happen, pix or it didn't happen ...
Then they're clearly not restricting absentee ballots to only people who actually are absent, or physically can't vote in person.
Again, you missed the point entirely. I said that every ballot is an absentee ballot. That's clearly absurd, since all ballots cannot be absentee. What would be the reasonable interpretation, then? It is that there is no such thing as an "absentee ballot". If you walk into a county election office a week before the election and say "I'd like an absentee ballot" they're going to look at you like you're a moron. "Your ballot is already in your mailbox", they'll say. If you think they're going to say "ok, please prove you're going to be out of town on election day ..." you're wrong.
You want more restrictions on absentees. That won't help.
They are a flaw in the system regardless of which parties the senators proposing them belong to.
Nobody is proposing nationwide absentee ballots. A well-known Democrat is pushing for vote-by-mail, for obvious reasons. Once you completely detach the identification process from the voting process, anything can happen.