Cybersecurity experts: Requesting ballots by email is safe


A City of Milwaukee Election Commission worker processes absentee ballots for the US state's primary election, in downtown Milwaukee in April. — Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP

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.

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