Title: Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL? | Snopes.com
Headings: Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL?
Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL?
Has President Obama sold the tabulating of votes in U.S. national elections to a Spanish company run by a donor to his campaign?
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Content: We want voting to be very, very secure. And we want it to be very, very anonymous. Internet security is difficult under the best of conditions. But voting has the additional complication that it is very difficult, if not impossible, to remedy a breach. Most of the time, all that is at stake is money, and we know how to fix that. Identity theft is more complex but still there are remedies. A stolen vote is gone forever. Anonymity complicated the problem immensely. The usual way to secure an internet transaction to make certain that both the server and the person at the other end and who or what they claim to be. To cast a ballot at a polling place or vote an absentee ballot, you have to produce identification or, at a minimum, a signature that matches one on file.