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  • - [Narrator] Registered voters in the Seattle area

  • just had the chance to participate in what officials say

  • is the country's most extensive use of mobile voting yet.

  • Over 95% of the election's ballots

  • were submitted electronically, via app or website.

  • - Supporters of mobile voting say,

  • "If you let people cast their ballots on their phones,

  • "they're a lot more likely to do it

  • "because it'll be easier and take less time."

  • - [Narrator] But some experts warn

  • that voting on our phones creates new privacy

  • and security problems that we don't have solutions for.

  • Will it always be too risky for a presidential election

  • or is nationwide mobile voting only a matter of time?

  • - At the end of the day, voting software is still software.

  • And all software is buggy.

  • And there will always be errors and security holes.

  • It's impossible to build perfect software.

  • - [Narrator] A tech company called Democracy Live

  • built the system that Washington voters used

  • during the recent pilot.

  • And while Democracy Live agrees that both software

  • and humans can be fallible, they're confident

  • their system is still safer

  • than some methods currently in use.

  • - King County, which is Washington's state

  • most populous county recently allowed mobile voting

  • for over one million voters in a small, local election.

  • Voters could use their phones or their laptops

  • to log onto a portal, open up a ballot and then

  • they could choose to submit that ballot electronically,

  • which is what we would think of as mobile voting.

  • - [Narrator] Supporters of mobile voting

  • say that it will make the process more convenient

  • and boost voter turnout.

  • In King County, election officials say

  • that turnout this year was double what it was

  • for this election last year.

  • Most of the roughly 6,500 ballots

  • were submitted electronically.

  • Only 209 were submitted by mail or drop box.

  • - If I had to choose between submitting a paper ballot

  • or using the app on my phone,

  • I actually would do the paper ballot.

  • We have a lot of experience with paper ballots over time.

  • And so there's kind of a big field test out there

  • that's been going on for decades.

  • And we know that it's not easy to change

  • a large number of paper ballots.

  • My concern about the digital environment

  • is that once those votes are collected

  • in a single database, the possibility

  • that someone could manipulate a large number of votes

  • at once is much higher.

  • Even more importantly is the fact that other people

  • would potentially fear that that would happen.

  • - [Narrator] Even under the best circumstances,

  • introducing new election technology

  • can add a new layer of doubt to results.

  • - In Iowa's caucus', the state Democratic Party

  • wanted to use an app to collect and report results

  • because they thought it would make it faster and easier.

  • Unfortunately, based on our reporting,

  • the app wasn't put through enough testing

  • and there wasn't enough planning.

  • So it ended up having glitches

  • that have really caused problems

  • for figuring out what the results were in Iowa.

  • - There was a sense that maybe it just didn't work

  • the way it was supposed to work.

  • And just introducing that amount of doubt

  • into the system delegitimatizes

  • people's confidence in the vote.

  • And it doesn't, I think, give people a high level

  • of confidence that we can manage

  • this sort of digital layer on top of what is already

  • a pretty emotionally-fraught voting system.

  • - Advocates are worried after what happened in Iowa

  • that people will start to be scared

  • of using new technology for voting.

  • Supporters of mobile voting say,

  • "They focus on security.

  • "They plan in advance and that they don't think

  • "what happened with Iowa's app should have

  • "a negative impact on their separate efforts."

  • - [Narrator] Running an end-to-end test

  • is crucial in most software development.

  • Creating software for smart phones

  • presents a unique challenge when it comes to testing,

  • which is especially important

  • when creating voting technology.

  • - We're building it so that it can run on

  • all the thousands of possible combinations

  • of Android phones, and IOS phones

  • and even Microsoft phones and phones

  • who's operating system haven't been updated

  • in three or four years or even more.

  • And so there's almost a limitless number

  • of environments in which you have to prove

  • that software can work.

  • And it's almost impossible to test it

  • in all of those environments except,

  • in an actual election.

  • - [Narrator] Still, mobile voting supporters say

  • it's important to find ways

  • to improve access and engage voters.

  • - Some experts and some people who advocate

  • for mobile voting say it's inevitable.

  • They say that younger generations

  • are used to doing everything on their phones

  • and they want to meet voters where they are.

  • - Maybe when every single car on the road

  • is driven by a robot and a generation of people

  • can't even imagine that a human being

  • would have ever driven a car, we'll also be saying,

  • "God, can you imagine that people used to vote

  • "on pieces of paper?"

  • I can see that coming and I think we'll be there,

  • but I think it's 20 years, not 10.

  • (upbeat cheerful music)

- [Narrator] Registered voters in the Seattle area

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