“I Bank & Shop Online, So   Why Can’t I Vote Online?”

Because not only are you putting your vote at risk, but also your identity, says a computer scientist from  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.  His article is posted on the CCHAL website here.  https://calhomelaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/If_I_can_bank_online-why-cant-I-vote-online.pdf

(Plus he points out that shopping isn’t that secure either, as multipls hackings of credit card processing centers and banks themselves prove.)

David Jefferson’s article was published ten years ago, but the technology to protect the security of voting STILL doesn’t exist, concluded experts from MIT, CalTech, Microsoft and others in research published in 18 months ago by UC Berkeley’s Center for Security in Politics.  Read it here: https://csp.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Working-Group-Statement-on-Internet-Ballot-Return.pdf

Why should homeowners care about any of this?

Because AB2159/Maienschein will permit California HOAs to vote by email and through their websites.  Who’s in charge of the email and the websites where voting is done and who’s verifying identities and who’s counting the votes and issuing the voting report?  The current board?  The property manager? The bill doesn’t say.

The legislation is sailing through Assembly committees (Housing and Judiciary.)  It’s headed to a floor vote soon – a place where homeowners can STOP it by phoning their Assembly rep in SACRAMENTO and urging a NO vote.

Don’t know who your Assembly Member is?  Go here to find out: https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/  — then phone him/her and urge NO on AB2159
 
Please email CCHAL at [email protected] to let us know that you phoned and

THANKS FOR TAKING ACTION!  PROTECT YOUR VOTING RIGHTS!

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