Digital Democracy: Scytl, MySociety Secure Funding

We may never again have to suffer "pregnant chads," "swinging chads" and other questionable voting protocols in an election thanks to the likes of Scytl, which calls itself a “worldwide leader in the development of secure solutions for electoral modernization.” 

Scytl, which started in 1994 from a PhD thesis on electronic voting before creating a company to develop online voting technology, just landed $9.2 million investment funding.

The Barcelona-based company has run the gauntlet of 13 national tests of electronic public voting, including the U.S., France, Norway, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Australia.Continue reading...