Online Voting Scheduled for May Primaries - News, Sports, Jobs - The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register:
Starting Friday, absentee voting ballots will be available online to residents in Marshall County.
The county was selected to participate in an online absentee voting project through the office of the West Virginia Secretary of State. The pilot program was adopted in response to passage of the federal Military and Overseas Voters Empowerment Act.
The goal of the project, is to give all out-of-state military personnel, as well as overseas voters, the opportunity to register to vote and cast their ballots through a secured Web site on the Internet.
'The entire voting process could now take minutes rather than days and weeks,' said Jackie Harris, elections specialist with the Office of the Secretary of State.
The county will be working directly with a contracted company named Scytl, which specializes in online electronic voting, Harris said.
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