Name: 詳解移動投票的風險和回報｜WSJ (The Risks and Rewards of Mobile Voting, Explained | WSJ)
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- [Narrator] Registered voters in the Seattle area

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just had the chance to participate in what officials say

is the country's most extensive use of mobile voting yet.

were submitted electronically, via app or website.

"If you let people cast their ballots on their phones,

"because it'll be easier and take less time."

that voting on our phones creates new privacy

and security problems that we don't have solutions for.

Will it always be too risky for a presidential election

or is nationwide mobile voting only a matter of time?

- At the end of the day, voting software is still software.

And there will always be errors and security holes.

It's impossible to build perfect software.

- [Narrator] A tech company called Democracy Live

built the system that Washington voters used

And while Democracy Live agrees that both software

and humans can be fallible, they're confident

- King County, which is Washington's state

most populous county recently allowed mobile voting

for over one million voters in a small, local election.

Voters could use their phones or their laptops

to log onto a portal, open up a ballot and then

they could choose to submit that ballot electronically,

which is what we would think of as mobile voting.

say that it will make the process more convenient

that turnout this year was double what it was

Only 209 were submitted by mail or drop box.

- If I had to choose between submitting a paper ballot

We have a lot of experience with paper ballots over time.

And so there's kind of a big field test out there

that someone could manipulate a large number of votes

Even more importantly is the fact that other people

would potentially fear that that would happen.

- [Narrator] Even under the best circumstances,

- In Iowa's caucus', the state Democratic Party

wanted to use an app to collect and report results

because they thought it would make it faster and easier.

the app wasn't put through enough testing

for figuring out what the results were in Iowa.

- There was a sense that maybe it just didn't work

And just introducing that amount of doubt

And it doesn't, I think, give people a high level

this sort of digital layer on top of what is already

a pretty emotionally-fraught voting system.

- Advocates are worried after what happened in Iowa

"They plan in advance and that they don't think

"what happened with Iowa's app should have

"a negative impact on their separate efforts."

presents a unique challenge when it comes to testing,

- We're building it so that it can run on

all the thousands of possible combinations

who's operating system haven't been updated

of environments in which you have to prove

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