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Page 1 of the 2016 General Election Federal ballot sent by email to voters in the Franklin 2 district of Kosciusko County, Indiana
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The State of Indiana currently manages a vote by email system for overseas and military residents in all state and federal elections. This system, which requires voters to waive their right to privacy, introduces several problems which impede traditional pillars of modern democracies, namely ballot secrecy and electronic privacy. This paper explore...
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... ballot for the election in PDF format (see Figure 2) 5 -Form ABS-9: Cover Sheet and Affidavit for Absent Uniformed Services and Overseas Voter (see Figure 3) -Additional instructions from the county board (but not the aforementioned Absentee Voter's Bill of Rights) The voter then marks the ballot (digitally or on a printed version), fills out the ABS-9 form, and then sends digital copies of both back to the county election 5 Generally, the ballot the voter receives will be a "regular ballot" containing races at local, state, and federal level. If the voter checks the box for "I am a U.S. citizen living outside the country, and my return is uncertain.", ...
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... Many states, for example, permit variations of voting by e-mail whereby a voter receives his/her ballot via e-mail and then, depending on the state, can return the marked ballot by mail, fax or e-mail. Several states also offer an online portal to distribute and receive votes (Thompson 2018). It is important to point out this loophole to illustrate limitations of current approaches. ...
