Internet voting presents far fewer risks in this case than it would during a regular election because delegates’ ballots aren’t secret. The remaining votes, including nominating the party’s candidate for president, will go to all convention delegates on a single ballot delivered by email. Delegates will also have the option of voting by phone or conventional mail if they object to email voting or lack Internet, the official said. (Matt Rourke/AP)If a traditional election was held this way, election security experts would be sounding alarms about it. “I’m less concerned about this instance of remote voting because they won’t be anonymous,” Duncan Buell, a University of South Carolina election security expert, told me.

Source: Washington Post July 15, 2020 11:15 UTC