CBS News NY recently reported on a proposal by tech millionaire Bradley Tusk to promote online voting via smartphone. FSFP’s senior advisor for election security, Susan Greenhalgh, was featured in the segment, debunking many of Tusk’s claims about the security of online voting.

Watch the segment here.

In the broadcast, Tusk asserted that his campaign for online voting is similar to the civil rights movement, women’s suffrage, or the expansion of rights for people with disabilities. At FSFP, we strongly reject this claim and refute any suggestion that Mr. Tusk’s drive to promote internet voting is at all akin to these historic and honored movements.

Internet voting is a method of voting that remains inadequately secure and makes ballots susceptible to undetectable, wholesale deletion or manipulation, according to top researchers, including those hired by Mr. Tusk. Yet he continues to ignore these facts,” said Susan Greenhalgh. “It is unacceptably insecure for all voters.  By centering voters that face challenges at the polls to promote online voting – including military voters and voters with disabilities – Tusk is cynically leveraging these communities to push his agenda. His fixation to advance his personal pet project should not be compared to those courageous and storied civil rights movements.