Eric Swalwell Quotes

My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.

Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

Can you imagine on-line voting. Even when your body has to show up, they manage to cheat somehow.

Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.

Casino slot machines in Las Vegas are far better audited than are electronic voting machines.

Encryption would help prevent a lot of cyber attacks.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure.

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

Without a national ID and the ability to create true data that can be be safely and securely sent between individuals, we are going to introduce new systemic risk back into the system.

The basic idea behind a paper trail is that you take one of these electronic systems and you augment it with a printer that prints out people's vote as they vote.

From casting to counting, our votes must be better protected in all voting systems.

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.

Turn on all security features like two-factor authentication. People who do that generally don't get hacked. Don't care? You will when you get hacked. Do the same for your email and other social services, too.

About one quarter of all the voting machines in the United States stupidly do not have any paper trail.

I'm very protective of my online life, and I try and take as many security measures.

By applying blockchain technology to voting platforms, we can prevent tampering with online voting, which will increase confidence in the voting results of voters and residents in Seoul.

We need to do everything in our power to assure the American people that the election system is secured and that outside forces will not interfere.

I'm very concerned about the integrity of the vote and the ballot, and that's why we've got to secure our cyberdefenses.

Mail-in voting is a proven and significant threat to election integrity.

After learning of a failed attempt to hack the state's online voter registration and My Voter Page, my office contacted the Department of Homeland Security and opened an investigation.

As the president of Estonia, I represent the only truly digital society which actually has a state; almost all our citizens' interactions with the government, including voting, can be done securely online, and our 'e-residents' can incorporate and run their businesses in Estonia without ever having to set foot here.

Election security is the first step to having free, fair, and open elections.