Smartmatic’s Mark Malloch Brown calls electronic voting systems one of several “interim confidence building steps” toward building “trust” ultimately to vote by internet.
The technology presently exists in the United States, he says, but building trust is the issue: “in a sense, technology can only go as fast and as far as people trust it.” In a video posted by Smartmatic, Malloch-Brown tells the Atlantic Council:
“But would it lead to a result that the American people would trust? Not right away, it wouldn’t. And so there’s a journey to go. And in that sense, it’s all about technology offering solutions to what people see as the principal issues, whether it is removing the sort of suppressions to registration, whether it’s enlarging the number of people who can vote …. There are all sorts of things where technology can come in, provide a solution, either through internet voting or through something which is more interim, which is better electronic equipment and voting systems in the polling stations themselves. There are lots of these interim confidence-building steps that can happen. But you know the ultimate end of it all is something where it’s not just that we vote online, but we have a much broader electronic engagement with our government….”
Source:
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trk_gJx5yH8
1. In Indicating that “the American people” won’t “trust” technology “right away,” is Malloch-Brown, a foreigner, implying that Americans need to be persuaded to accept his solutions?
2. Is Malloch-Brown speaking of transforming American democracy from written ballots at polling stations to centralized Internet voting controlled by foreign companies?
3. What about the issues of transparency in the American voting system, reliability of the results and protection against foreign manipulation of the electoral process and National Security? How could technology from Venezuela and Malloch-Brown provide a solution to this issue?
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