COLUMBUS, Ohio: A group of leading cybersecurity experts told an Ohio court that absentee ballot applications can be safely transmitted using email, countering the secretary of state's assertions that the practice would open up voting in the presidential battleground to outside interference.
In a filing late Sept 21, eight experts in computer information and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgetown, Princeton and other universities in the United States joined the American Civil Liberties Union and the Brennan Center for Justice in asking a state appellate court to allow the ballot applications to be accepted by electronic means.