Deployable voting machines could be available to overseas troops by next year

Overseas troops could be using deployable electronic voting machines to cast their ballots as soon as next year, the president of a nonprofit election technology firm said this week. “We now have a fully functional prototype and are a few weeks away from wrapping up our report to [the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency],” Ben Adida, executive director of VotingWorks and the technical lead on the project, told Stars and Stripes by email Monday. VotingWorks unveiled an early-stage version of its deployable voting machine in February at the National Association...