In 2020, Some Americans Will Vote On Their Phones. Is That The Future?

For decades, the cybersecurity community has had a consistent message: Mixing the Internet and voting is a horrendous idea.

"I believe that's about the worst thing you can do in terms of election security in America, short of putting American ballot boxes on a Moscow street," howled Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on the Senate floor this year.

And yet, just a few years removed from Russia's attack on democracy in the 2016 presidential election, and at a time of increased fear about election security, pockets of the U.S. are doing just that: experimenting with Internet voting as a means to increase turnout.

Some experts are terrified. Others see the projects as necessary growth in an American voting system they call woefully stuck in a previous century.

The number of people expected to vote this way