In November, the United States will hold a presidential election, and this one is without modern precedent.
Access to polling places has been a topic of debate since our first elections as a country. The current COVID crisis and the requirements for social distancing are bringing renewed attention to this issue of reduced polling locations, accessibility to the reduced number of locations, and the resulting increased restrictions on the ability to vote. Convenience, security, and verifiable identity are at the center of these conversations.
While the debate regarding in-person voting previously centered on the topics of number and location of polling places, the debate has widened this year as the physical health and safety of in-person voting takes on a new level of significance. There is a solution that addresses all of these issues: location, access, and health. It is online voting — an option that earns greater consideration every election cycle.
Experiments with online voting are still in their early days, and although the efforts are gaining ground, the hurdles are also significant. In pursuit of online voting's very real benefits of convenience, speed of results, and improving participation, organizations need to tackle concerns about security, lack of Internet access for voters, and privacy.
Our company, OneLogin, recently undertook an extensive study to understand the perception and challenges of online voting and find out just how much effort the electorate is willing to go through in order for the risks associated with online voting to be reasonably mitigated.
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