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: Moreover, it’s highly unlikely any states will be choosing to use systems like Scytl’s to implement online voting on anything more than a very limited basis in the 2012 general election. Scytl’s current list of customers includes only a few U.S. states plus the District of Columbia, all of whom have so far limited their use of Scytl systems to providing a means for overseas (i.e., military and absentee) voters to cast their ballots remotely. According to Discovery News, even those scant initial uses of online voting failed to pan out in some cases, and those systems will not be re-used in 2012: One of the nation’s first online voting experiments was a big failure. In October 2010, officials in Washington, D.C., set up an Internet-based system for overseas and military voters to cast their ballots. During a one-week test period, the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics asked the public to test its integrity. Students from a University of Michigan class obliged and within 36 hours had posted the Michigan fight song on the website. “Not only were they able to penetrate the system, but also they were monitoring what was going inside the system itself,” Alexander Shvartsman, professor at the University of Connecticut’s Center for Voting Technology Research, said. He added that the students were also able to see the electronic signatures of hackers based in both China and Iran probing the D.C. site. The District of Columbia scrapped the plan and has no plans to resurrect it in 2012.