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...Voters in the King Conservation District, which includes 1.2 million people in the Greater Seattle area, will soon be able to vote via smartphone in a first for U.S. elections.
...One professor specializing in election technology called the entire concept of voting via smartphone "a very stupid idea."
...NPR reports that the King Conservation District, a state environmental district that encompasses Seattle and 30 other cities, will detail a new plan this week which will allow voters in the Greater Seattle area to vote via their smartphones.
...Duncan Buell, a computer science professor at the University of South Carolina who specializes in election technology, commented on the initiative stating: "There is a firm consensus in the cybersecurity community that mobile voting on a smartphone is a really stupid idea. I don't know that I have run across cybersecurity experts whose mortgages are not paid by a mobile-voting company who thinks it's a good idea."
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