Is your vote secure? Many digital systems lack paper backups

Officials from companies pioneering Internet voting disagree.

“We take security issues extremely seriously,” says Lori Steele, chief executive officer of Everyone Counts, a San Diego-based Internet voting company that provides services in Colorado, Utah, Washington, Florida, and Illinois. “We use military-grade encryption and feel ours is the highest-level security of any voting system, including when you compare systems like mail or polling stations.”